THE PRAGMATICS OF POLITENESS

• Authors: Szili Katalin
• Languages of publication: HU

Abstracts

EN

Pragmatics deviates from traditional interpretations of politeness both in its concept and terminology and in the way it delineates the range of phenomena to be explored. This paper discusses these differences in terms of two dominant theories of politeness: Leech's Conversational Maxims, and Brown and Levinson's notion of face-work. The author puts both theories into wider perspective and compares them, noting their virtues and shortcomings. Being less well known of the two, Brown and Levinson's theory is given a more detailed treatment, going through the changes that the concept of 'face' has undergone, and discussing each type of face-threatening acts that those two scholars have defined. The aim of the author is to encourage, by her analytical review, an increase in the number and scope of pragmatic studies in this country.

Keywords

EN

CONVERSATIONAL MAXIMS; FACE-WORK; POLITENESS; PRAGMATICS

Discipline

• PHILOLOGY_&_LINGUISTICS: PHILOLOGY & LINGUISTICS

• Publisher: Committee on Hungarian Linguistics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Magyar Nyelvor (Hungarian Language Guardian)
• Year: 2007
• Volume: 131
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 1-17
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Szili Katalin

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Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

11HUAAAA09041