Conversational Politeness and Foreign Language Teaching [microform] / Yu-hwei E. Lii-Shih.
A cross-cultural study of conversational politeness in Chinese and English as a foreign language is presented. The primary goals of the study were to make a systematic comparison of politeness rules and conversational strategies used in each language, to identify and analyze the actual communicative...
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| Language: | English |
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| Summary: | A cross-cultural study of conversational politeness in Chinese and English as a foreign language is presented. The primary goals of the study were to make a systematic comparison of politeness rules and conversational strategies used in each language, to identify and analyze the actual communicative problems of cross-cultural communication occurring among Chinese learners of English and American learners of Chinese, and to develop a model for teaching conversational interaction and politeness strategies in the foreign language classroom. In addition, the close relationship between language and its social settings and the relevance of sociolinguistics and pragmatics to the teaching and learning of a foreign language are highlighted. After an introductory section, chapters discuss the following: a framework for examining politeness in conversation and its relevance and constraint on the choice of syntactic structures and lexical items in an utterance; linguistic strategies commonly used for politeness; cases of polite language usage (forms of address, compliment responses, greetings, and requests and rejections); the results of the study of cross-cultural pragmatic failure; and implications for the teaching of conversational interaction and politeness strategies. Appended materials include a 14-page bibliography in English and Chinese, survey instruments, and common formulaic expressions and gambits in Chinese and English. (MSE) |
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| Item Description: | ERIC Document Number: ED320391. |
| Physical Description: | 316 p. |