Transcript Diapositiva 1 - ITIS Cannizzaro Colleferro

Linguistic interaction
=
social interaction

Social distance and closeness
(age, social status, power, etc)
Politeness:
1) How language expresses the social
distance between speakers and their
different role relationship
2) The attempt to establish, maintain, and
save face during conversation
Pliteness: polite social behaviour, etiquette within a culture
Face:
The image or impression of oneself that a
person shows or intends to show to the other
participants
The public self-image of a person
In an interaction politeness can be defines as
the means employed to show awareness of
another person’ face (respect, deference or
friendliness, solidarity)
In an interaction politeness can be
defined as the means employed to
show awareness of another
person’ face (respect, deference or
friendliness, solidarity)
Face wants:
Expectations concerning a person’s public selfimage
Face threatening act (the others do not respect the
expectations)
Face saving act (the others respect the
expectations)
Negative face:
The need to be indipendent, to have freedom of
action
Positive face:
The need to be accepted, to be considered a
member of the group