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Realisation of politeness strategies among family members in casual conversations / Lim Sing Yuing

This study attempts to look into the realization of politeness strategies among family members in naturally occurring conversations. One of the important aspects of this study is to determine the patterns of politeness strategies demonstrated among family members in a family. On top of that, this...

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Main Author: Lim, Sing Yuing
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Published: 2012
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spelling my.um.stud.39742013-08-30T04:03:13Z Realisation of politeness strategies among family members in casual conversations / Lim Sing Yuing Lim, Sing Yuing P Philology. Linguistics PE English This study attempts to look into the realization of politeness strategies among family members in naturally occurring conversations. One of the important aspects of this study is to determine the patterns of politeness strategies demonstrated among family members in a family. On top of that, this study also delves into how the interlocutors accommodate face strategies among family members. In this qualitative study, a non-participation observation was deployed. This study comprised seven sets of conversations, with 35 subjects being involved and each set of the conversation lasting between 50 and 60 minutes. A brief follow-up interview session with the subjects of this study was also carried out after the analysis of data was done. Information obtained from the follow-up interview was helpful to substantiate the data and findings. The key findings indicated that positive politeness and bald-on record appear to be the most commonly used politeness strategies by family members of this study, while the employment of negative politeness and off-record politeness were less frequent. On the other hand, it was found that the interlocutors commonly employed laughter and local particles in their conversations to accommodate face strategies among each other. 2012 Thesis NonPeerReviewed application/pdf http://studentsrepo.um.edu.my/3974/1/Title_page%2C_abstract%2C_table_of_contents.pdf application/pdf http://studentsrepo.um.edu.my/3974/2/Full_chapters.pdf application/pdf http://studentsrepo.um.edu.my/3974/3/References%26appendices.pdf http://pendeta.um.edu.my/client/default/search/results?qu=Realisation+of+politeness+strategies+among+family+members+in+casual+conversations&te= Lim, Sing Yuing (2012) Realisation of politeness strategies among family members in casual conversations / Lim Sing Yuing. Masters thesis, University of Malaya. http://studentsrepo.um.edu.my/3974/
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topic P Philology. Linguistics
PE English
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PE English
Lim, Sing Yuing
Realisation of politeness strategies among family members in casual conversations / Lim Sing Yuing
description This study attempts to look into the realization of politeness strategies among family members in naturally occurring conversations. One of the important aspects of this study is to determine the patterns of politeness strategies demonstrated among family members in a family. On top of that, this study also delves into how the interlocutors accommodate face strategies among family members. In this qualitative study, a non-participation observation was deployed. This study comprised seven sets of conversations, with 35 subjects being involved and each set of the conversation lasting between 50 and 60 minutes. A brief follow-up interview session with the subjects of this study was also carried out after the analysis of data was done. Information obtained from the follow-up interview was helpful to substantiate the data and findings. The key findings indicated that positive politeness and bald-on record appear to be the most commonly used politeness strategies by family members of this study, while the employment of negative politeness and off-record politeness were less frequent. On the other hand, it was found that the interlocutors commonly employed laughter and local particles in their conversations to accommodate face strategies among each other.
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title Realisation of politeness strategies among family members in casual conversations / Lim Sing Yuing
title_short Realisation of politeness strategies among family members in casual conversations / Lim Sing Yuing
title_full Realisation of politeness strategies among family members in casual conversations / Lim Sing Yuing
title_fullStr Realisation of politeness strategies among family members in casual conversations / Lim Sing Yuing
title_full_unstemmed Realisation of politeness strategies among family members in casual conversations / Lim Sing Yuing
title_sort realisation of politeness strategies among family members in casual conversations / lim sing yuing
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