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THE CONCEPT OF CULTURE = shared system of attitudes beliefs values…

- - - - POLITENESS = DISCURSIVE BEHAVIOUR used to
        
        maintain harmonious relationship
        
        avoid conflict
        --> use politeness to mitigate FTA
        
        avoid embarassement
        
        :warning: Bennet: conflict-handling is cultural based --> 5 styles
        
        denial
        
        3rd person intermediary
        
        group consensus
        
        direct discussion
        
        poweer/authority
        
        politeness = dynamically constructed, enacted and negotiated among member of the CofP
        :red_cross: NO linguistic form is inherently (im)polite
        
        Brown + Lewinson: face model of politeness = seriousness of the message according to
        
        power distance
        
        distance - closeness
        
        degree of impostion
        
        Locher + Watts: RELATIONAL WORK --> continuum
        
        rude/impolite
        
        unmarked
        
        polite
        
        overpolite
        :pencil2: rel work = framework to
        
        better understandculture 2
        
        move away from stereotypes
    - - SPEECH ACT THEORY
        5 categories of speech acts (Searl)
        
        assertives / representatives
        
        directives
        
        declaratives
        
        expressives
        
        commissives
        
        most frequent in business conetxt:
        
        commissives
        
        directives
        --> negotiation
      - POLITENESS = mean employed to show awaress of another person's face --> PRINCIPLE (leech)
        
        GRAND STRATEGY OF POLITNESS (GSP) = "in order to be polite, the speaker expresses/implies meaning
        
        which place low value on what pertains to the speaker
        
        which place high value on what pertains to the addressee"
        = constraints
        :warning: varies according to culture