Politeness and Culture in Second Language Acquisition
by
S. Song
Book Details
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Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10
1137030623
ISBN-13
9781137030627
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Imprint
Palgrave Macmillan
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Oct 29th, 2012
Print length
164 Pages
Weight
330 grams
Dimensions
22.30 x 15.00 x 1.50 cms
Product Classification:
Language acquisition
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This book examines the importance of politeness in pragmatic expression and communication, making a significant contribution to the debate over whether the universal politeness theory is applicable globally regardless of cultural differences.
Brown and Levinson (1987) developed a universal politeness theory that posits distance, power, and task imposition together to determine politeness weightiness perception. However, their theory overlooks the importance of cultural differences in politeness behavior. Furthermore, the theory mathematically formularizes that politeness weightiness perception is determined by simply adding social distance between the speaker and the hearer with social power (status) of the hearer (addressee) and task imposition. In this book, I refine the theory by developing a formal model while accounting for cultural differences and empirically test them using survey data obtained from subjects with Korean and American cultural background. The results reveal that cultural differences do matter in a speaker''s determination of politeness weightiness.
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