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Bohemistyka
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2014
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vol. 14
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issue 1
3 - 20
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In the presented paper, the author researches communication strategies used by the communicants in media dialogues of a specific type. In the analysed talk show topics formerly regarded as strictly private and unofficial are presented in public. However, the communicants representing a media company refrain from following communication strategies traditionally used to reach the communication goals, instead they intentionally attack their communication partners, threatening their face. The paper presents the most common types of the face-threatening strategies and provides their analysis.
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The paper compares verbal responses of Czech and native English speakers to 12 model situations and analyses them in terms of Brown-Levinson’s politeness strategies (face-management theory). The survey aims to detect the pragmalinguistic features in Czech speakers’ English that can possibly lead to negative evaluation by English native speakers (i.e. can be seen as impolite). The results suggest that the Czech speakers failed to employ not only mitigation strategies in English, such as hedging, indirection and option-giving that seek to minimise the imposition conveyed by the FTA, but also intensification strategies that accentuate the illocutionary force of the FFA. The reasons that led to unintended impoliteness in non-native speakers included deficient pragmatic knowledge or generally poor English as well as different expectations about and evaluations of the given situations in English and Czech contexts. Such discrepancies are motivated by different cultural values and their hierarchies.
Bohemistyka
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2013
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vol. 13
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issue 1
15 - 34
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The presented article deals with communicative and politeness strategies chosen by Czech native speakers. The method of the research was a discourse completion test; data collected in 2003 and 2011 were compared. Several situations (forms of addressing, thanks, apologies) were presented to the informants, their task was to write down a spontaneous reaction. In relation to Hofstede's dimensional model several observations were made: power index is getting smaller in formal communicative situations, the use od academic titles declines. There is a rising tendency to individualism and competition, speakers often violate modesty maxim, express their needs and emotions more openly. However, the low tolerance of uncertainty does not allow those tendencies to be manifest in formal situations where there is a great risk of face loss, in formal situations speakers prefer stereotypical formulas and chose indirect strategies.
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