Positive and negative politeness in spoken Lithuanian
Positive and negative politeness in spoken Lithuanian
Author(s): Laura Kamandulytė-Merfeldienė, Sandra VainilavičiūtėSubject(s): Language studies, Language and Literature Studies, Baltic Languages, Philology
Published by: Tallinna Ülikooli Kirjastus
Keywords: Lithuanian; corpus; expressive; directive;address;
Summary/Abstract: The aim of the research is to discuss the means of expressionof positive and negative politeness in prepared and spontaneous spokenlanguage. The research is based on the speech-act theory by Searle (1976)and the theory of positive and negative politeness by Brown and Levinson(1978, 2009). The research data are conversations from the Corpus of SpokenLithuanian, which comprise semi-formal and formal communication inthe media, academic discourse, and spontaneous communication in servicedomains. In total, the research data consist of 144,893 words. The researchdemonstrates that different politeness strategies are employed in differentspoken language registers.
Journal: Philologia Estonica Tallinnensis
- Issue Year: 3/2018
- Issue No: 1
- Page Range: 66-94
- Page Count: 29
- Language: English, Estonian