Linguistic politeness in Britain and Uruguay : a contrastive study of requests and apologies / / Rosina Marquez-Reiter

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910810559703321
• Autore: Marquez-Reiter Rosina
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 2000
• ISBN: 1-282-25472-3; 0-585-46254-2; 9786612254727; 90-272-9893-9
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: xvii, 225 p. : ill
• Collana: Pragmatics & beyond ; ; new ser. 83
• Disciplina: 306.44/0941
• Soggetti: English language - Social aspects - Great Britain; English language - Grammar, Comparative - Spanish; Spanish language - Grammar, Comparative - English; Spanish language - Social aspects - Uruguay; Language and culture - Great Britain; Social interaction - Great Britain; Language and culture - Uruguay; Social interaction - Uruguay; Speech acts (Linguistics); Apologizing; Courtesy; Great Britain Social life and customs; Uruguay Social life and customs
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [203]-222) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: LINGUISTIC POLITENESS IN BRITAIN AND URUGUAY -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Table of contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Politeness theory -- Chapter 2. Speech act theory and politeness: Requests and apologies -- Chapter 3. Structure of the study and methodology -- Chapter 4. The findings: Requests -- Chapter 5. The findings: Apologies -- Chapter 6. Conclusion -- ; Appendix -- References -- Subject index -- PRAGMATICS AND BEYOND NEW SERIES.
• Sommario/riassunto: The first well-researched contrastive pragmatic analysis of requests and apologies in British English and Uruguayan Spanish. It takes the form of a cross-cultural corpus-based analysis using male and female native speakers of each language and systematically alternating the same social variables in both cultures.The data are elicited from a non-prescriptive open role-play yielding requests and apologies. The analysis of the speech acts is based on an adaptation of the categorical scheme developed by Blum-Kulka et al. (1989).The results show that speakers of English and Spanish differ in their choice of (in)directness levels, head-act modifications, and the politeness types of males and females in both cultures.Reference to an extensive bibliography and the thorough discussion of methodological issues concerning speech act studies deserve the attention of students of pragmatics as well as readers interested in cultural matters.