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A Doll's House - Leech's politeness maxims
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The Present Study
Research Question
What kind of Leech’s politeness principle is used in the conversations of A Doll’s
House play?
Methodology - Employs the techniques of:
Classifying
Collecting
Searching
Linguistics
Pragmatics
Controversial
To grasp intention
To understand the linguistic content of utterance
"The study of those relations between language and context that are grammaticalized, or encoded with the structure of a language." - Levinson
"The study of the meaning of an utterance in a situation" - Leech
"Study of invisible meaning" - Gazdar
Phonetics, syntax, semantics, etc...
Politeness
Make both sides feel respected
Social interactions are restricted
Proposed by S. Levinson, P. Brown, specified by Geoffrey Leech
To express polite beliefs, to minimize expressing impolite beliefs
Harmonize atmosphere for communication
Principles of politeness
Tact maxim
Minimize "cost" to the hearer, and maximize "benefit" from hearing a belief
Krogstad asks Nora something, but does not demand an answer.
Generosity maxim
Minimize expression of beliefs that mean benefit to one's self, and maximize those that imply cost
Nora gives the porter money, showing she is willing to suffer cost, and benefit someone else
Approbation maxim
Minimize dispraise of others, maximize approval
Nurse tells Nora that there is nobody as charming as her, therefore maximizing approval of Nora
Modesty maxim
Minimize praise and maximize dispraise of self
Nora calls herself silly, therefore is dispraising herself
Agreement maxim
Minimize disagreement between self and others, maximize agreement
Nora chooses to do something as her husband suggests
Sympathy maxim
Minimize antipathy and maximize sympathy between self and others
Nora seems sympathetic towards Mrs. Linda: "How dreadfully sad that must be"