Face threatening acts

This paper introduces and analyses some syntactic features of rejection in English and Vietnamese as well as finds out the similarities and differences of rejection between the two languages.

12p viwmotors 02-12-2022 27 8   Download

This paper introduces and analyses some syntactic features of rejection in English and Vietnamese as well as "nds out the similarities and differences of rejection between the two languages.

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This study aims at investigating male and female strategies of directness and indirectness manifest in the speech of the characters in the play Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw. In the light of politeness theory by Brown and Levinson (1978), the realizations of direct and indirect strategies of politeness are associated with two types of strategies of face threatening acts (FTAs), namely bald-on-record and offrecord strategies.

27p quenchua1 11-11-2019 40 1   Download