By Sabine Jautz
Within the current research using thanking formulae is tested throughout assorted genres and forms of English. facts is taken from the British nationwide Corpus and the Wellington Corpus of Spoken New Zealand English. applying a form-to-function mapping, thanking formulae should not basically analysed quantitatively, but additionally qualitatively accounting for neighborhood contexts and style. also, the prestige of thanking formulae is tested within the so much famous versions of politeness, and the interpersonal relation among the interlocutors is investigated. the 1st half is dedicated to a variational research, that is supplemented through a style standpoint within the moment half. The findings of the research give a contribution new insights to analyze on thanking (formulae), politeness, variational pragmatics and media discourse.
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27. In his 2007 account of whether there is “an East-West divide” concerning politeness, Leech qualifies a number of his earlier statements, among them the use of the term ‘maxim’ – he now prefers ‘constraint’ (cf. Leech 2007: 180). However, as he still “broadly adhere[s]” to his Principles of Pragmatics from 1983 (Leech 2007: 174), the earlier examination, which is widely recognised in the linguistic community and the pertinent literature, is chosen as a basis for the present study. However, when useful, references to the restatement from 2007 will be included.
Watts comes to the conclusion that the notion of politic behaviour is hard to operationalise because it is closely related to the individual interlocutor’s habitus in performing instances of social practice adequately (cf. Watts 2003: 247; cf. also Locher/Watts 2005: 17). 5 Politeness as social indexing or discernment The models of politeness discussed so far often fall short of accounting for politeness in non-Western cultures, even though politeness defined as strategic conflict avoidance is (more or less explicitly) assumed to be universal.
A speaker purports, six interpersonal maxims of the politeness principle are postulated to cover the relevant relations between the interactants (cf. ). In other words: “In order to be polite, S expresses or implies meanings which associate a high value with what pertains to O (O = other person(s), mainly the addressee) or associates a low value with what pertains to S (S = self, speaker)” (Leech 2007: 181; emphasis in original). There are six maxims of politeness (cf. ): ‘Tact’ and ‘generosity’ as well as ‘approbation’ and ‘modesty’ are based on bipolar scales, while ‘agreement’ and ‘sympathy’ are unipolar scales.