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POLITENESS (Chapter 5)
How rich is the Hungarian language with its speech levels and special respectful vocabulary compared to the other languages?
What are the languages, except Japanese and Chinese, that can express politeness/respect similar to Hungarian?AAN
I cannot really understand what 'Negative face' means. Can we talk a little about it in class? Also, I have heard the term 'face' in my other lectures but why is it called that? What is the Hungarian translation for such face? AAN
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The book says that with the help of contrastive analysis, second language teaching can be facilitated, since it shows the areas of greatest difference between languages. What would be an example for such difference between English and Hungarian? (VSZ)
Pragmatic competence overlap with sociolinguistic competence, but is there any significant difference between them or are they basically the same?(VSZ)
The book says that power and distance are heavily dependent on each other. Religious connections could be an exception? (in a church you address everyone in the same way and you can build strong relationships regardless of age or societal status) (ÖF)
Although contrastive analysis failed to predict typical errors of L2 learners based on L1, this theory in connection with politeness works? (ÖF)
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Does positive politeness highlight friendliness by communicating more informally? (HA)
Which strategies do the speakers of Hungarian use more often? (HA)
In multicultural communities, how do people manage to overcome the differences in utilization of negative and positive politeness strategies among different groups of the community? Have they already found a standard which is accepted by all members, or they have simply accepted the fact that these differences exist, in order to be able to coexist? (Hossi)
Do we find such differences in politeness attributes of different varieties of sign language, as well? (Hossi)
How can complement be a threat to the adressee's negative face?(KB)
What about Hungarians, do we tend to attend to the negative face wants or to the positive face wants?(KB)
Does our self-esteem affect whether we appeal to someone's negative/positive face wants? (NE) Is there any research done on how gender affects this? (NE)
With what methods can we study the politeness strategies of a given society?
What is the reason for the fact that some communities prefer the positive, while others the negative politeness?
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What is the difference between the Hungarian forms "szeretnél ... ? vs. nem szeretnél ... ? " and the English forms "do you want to ... ? vs. don't you want to ... ?"? GYB
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Are Hungarians mostly oriented towads positive or negative poilteness? Can we even make such assumptions about certain nations? BV
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Could hostility between two social groups affect the parameters of face-threatening behaviour in the two? (BL)
"Cost of imposition
A scalar measure of how serious a face-threatening act is in a particular society, and given the power and distance difference between speaker and hearer." What does Distance mean here exactly? Physical distance or something else? (BL)
Is it possible for people to have different ideas of politeness even if they belong to the same culture? (MK)
Can politeness change? (Eg: something is considered to be a polite action now, but a few decades ago it wasn’t.) (MK)
Why does social media stop people from using politeness strategies? (Both the positive and negative face) It is enough to look at a Facebook comment section and in what manner people communicate. Do they just forget that they are addressing a complete stranger? (ME)
If two people who are close to each other (e.g. close friends) end up in a professional environment where the social distance and negative face wants are a norm, should they address each other differently? If so, will they actually keep a distance in that environment? My mother was my headteacher for one year and I was really confused during her classes about how should I call her, "Mom" or "Teacher". (ME)