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Meta-pragmatic awareness and agency in language learners’ constructions of politeness
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Liddicoat, Anthony and McConachy, Troy (2019) Meta-pragmatic awareness and agency in language learners’ constructions of politeness. In: Szende, Thomas and Alao, George, (eds.) Pragmatic and Cross-Cultural Competences : focus on politeness. Bruxelles: Peter Lang, pp. 11-25. ISBN 9782807607484
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.3726/b15836
Abstract
The L2 speaker is able to function in the target culture only when s/he is able to understand, anticipate and produce the choices that the said society makes. Being polite therefore means: knowing how to draw on the conventions of a society, taking into account the expectations of an interlocutor regarding social relations at any given point, and is based on the appropriate language register to the communication situation; being able to balance standard and non-standard features and to adjust one’s speech by moving it towards more or less familiarity, or formality. The learner therefore needs to be aware of the pragmatic flexibility of speakers – native and experts – who move from one register to another and juggle between respect and caution, first degree meaning and irony, exuberance and excess, with difference in levels, nature and degrees of politeness.
Item Type: | Book Item | ||||||
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Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Centre for Applied Linguistics | ||||||
Publisher: | Peter Lang | ||||||
Place of Publication: | Bruxelles | ||||||
ISBN: | 9782807607484 | ||||||
Book Title: | Pragmatic and Cross-Cultural Competences : focus on politeness | ||||||
Editor: | Szende, Thomas and Alao, George | ||||||
Official Date: | 2019 | ||||||
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Number of Pages: | 290 | ||||||
Page Range: | pp. 11-25 | ||||||
DOI: | 10.3726/b15836 | ||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||
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