Linguistic politeness

The article investigates the politeness strategies employed in the speeches by US diplomats towards China and Vietnam. Quantitative and qualitative research approaches are applied to identify and analyze the linguistic devices that represent these strategies. The findings on politeness meta-strategies collected from two corpora denote different underlying intentions of US diplomats to China and Vietnam.

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This paper is aimed at investigating the use of linguistic markers expressing politeness strategies in the discourse of British and American political speeches under the umbrella of corpusbased analysis. Markers of positive and negative politeness strategies used in British and American politicians’ speeches were collected for a comparative analysis.

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The objectives of the study are: to find out the effectiveness of using language games in vocabulary teaching to the first year cadets at PA; to investigate cadets’ attitudes towards vocabulary learning through language games at Political Academy. This study was conducted using action research with four steps: planning, acting, observing, and reflecting.

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In this research, an attempt will be made to review the quality of EnglishVietnamese versions in terms of conveying the intention of the author, and then recommend some criteria for better translation of political articles.

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The following objectives are set: To investigate the manner in which the conflict and main participants are approached and represented in the media; to explore the journalists underlying ideologies via analyzing the grammatical and lexical features of the news reports, from which revealing a close relationship between ideologies and media language for political purposes.discourse.

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Objectives of the study: To identify and analyze politeness strategies used by teachers and students in English classes at SFL-TNU; to offer suggestions for teachers and students in using politeness strategies in a more effective way.

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This paper uses Appraisal framework to identify Attitude and Engagement resources in a selection of texts in order to reveal the level of “subjectivity” in commentaries about political events taken from two online newspapers: The New York Times and Tuoi Tre. The results show that although there are some differences in the frequency and the linguistic features of these resources, the genre in the two languages shares a variety of similarities in their subjectivity level.

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When communicating, people not only exchange information, set a goal but also present themselves in several respects such as: Their knowledge, their behavior, their culture, etc... (it is called the face of participants). Moreover, it shows the relationship between the speaker and the listener.

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This article highlights the linguistic scenario of multilingual Nepal, and measures the vitality levels of overall languages in general and Kirati languages in particular on the basis of Expanded Graded Intergenerational Disruption Scale (EGIDS) used by Lewis and Simons (2010) derived from Fishman's Graded Intergenerational Disruption Scale (GIDS 1991). The first part presents the linguistic situation of Nepal, the second part demonstrates the vitality levels of Nepalese languages in general, the third part indicates the status of Kirati languages and the last part provides some suggestions.

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This article reviews the research literature on politeness, so as to makesuggestions for future research in the field of politeness and communication. Among the extensive literature on politeness for the last three decades, Brown &Levinson (1978, 1987)’s model of politeness has been considered the mostinfluential view of politeness but has also faced severe criticim from a newlyemerging body of politeness research.

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The study aims to find out how students actually do their power through linguistic choices by looking at some pragmatic aspects such as speech acts, addressing terms and politeness strategies (Yule, 1996). The study found that students explicitly do power in this discourse; besides, negotiation of traditional roles was also present.

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The preparation of the Fifth Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics was done, without doubt, under extraordinary circumstances. To characterize the situation one only has to remember that since the Manchester conference there have been four governments on the territory of the former GDR, differing in every imaginable respect.

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Previous work on statistical language generation has primarily focused on grammaticality and naturalness, scoring generation possibilities according to a language model or user feedback. More recent work has investigated data-driven techniques for controlling linguistic style without overgeneration, by reproducing variation dimensions extracted from corpora. Another line of work has produced handcrafted rule-based systems to control specific stylistic dimensions, such as politeness and personality. ...

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We present a game-theoretic model of bargaining over a metaphor in the context of political communication, find its equilibrium, and use it to rationalize observed linguistic behavior. We argue that game theory is well suited for modeling discourse as a dynamic resulting from a number of conflicting pressures, and suggest applications of interest to computational linguists.

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A fusion of linguistic, religious and ethnic groups with rich, diverse roots and intersecting histories make up South Africa. However, the literature on most of the smaller groups tends to be thin and uneven and often tends to relegate them to the margins of the country’s major narratives. This innovative study introduces readers to a fascinating world of linguistic, religious and cultural politics in the South African port city of Durban from around 1950, the world of the Arabic Study Circle.

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This book is a unique reference, aimed at filling in the existing void and bridging a linguistic, as well as a cultural, gap between Americans and Russians in the legal sphere. It is the first English-Russian Dictionary of American Criminal Law to be published in this country. The demand for this kind of materials in the United States has been growing steadily over the past few years. Since the end of the Cold War thousands of Russians have come to the United States including political and religious refugees, immigrants, scientists, tourists, business people, and, regrettably, criminals.

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BACHELOR OF ARTS Chinese, Classical Studies, Defence Studies, Economics, Education, Educational Psychology, English, Environmental Studies, Geography, History, Japanese, Linguistics, Māori Studies, Mathematics, Media Studies, Philosophy, Politics, Psychology, Social Anthropology, Social Policy, Sociology, Spanish, Statistics.

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The current extraordinary advances in basic biomedical and social sciences have unprecedented potential to improve the human condition. These insights, together with the human genome project and its successor proteomics, will require an enormous commitment to translational research to harvest their applications for medicine and public health. The progress in political and social theory, linguistics, statistics, psychology, and behavioral sciences generally deserves a similarly broad application of human research to reach full expression.

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THE PANJAB, NORTH-WEST FRONTIER PROVINCE AND KASHMIR BY SIR JAMES DOUIE, M.A., K.C.S.I. SEEMA PUBLICATIONS C-3/19, R. P. Bagh, Delhi-110007. First Indian Edition 1974 Printed in India at Deluxe Offset Press, Daya Basti, Delhi-110035 and Published by Seema Publications, Delhi-110007. EDITOR'S PREFACE In his opening chapter Sir James Douie refers to the fact that the area treated in this volume—just one quarter of a million square miles—is comparable to that of AustriaHungary.

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In his opening chapter Sir James Douie refers to the fact that the area treated in this volume—just one quarter of a million square miles—is comparable to that of AustriaHungary. The comparison might be extended; for on ethnographical, linguistic and physical grounds, the geographical unit now treated is just as homogeneous in composition as the Dual Monarchy. It is only in the political sense and by force of the ruling classes, temporarily united in one monarch, that the term Osterreichischcould be used to include the Poles of Galicia, the Czechs of Bohemia and Moravia, the .

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