LINGUIST 2E03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Implicature, Ethnocentrism, Phatic Expression
15 Oct 2017
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Note that there is a difference between the two: dresses up messages about wanting things to make them polite, request: i want you to buy me an ice cream!!! Now: polite: could you please /would you / wouldn"t you , politeness goes hand in hand with indirectness the politer we become the more indirect we become. The more polite we are trying to be, the more indirectly we phrase our requests: (1) questions instead of orders, (2) use of subjunctive, could you instead of can you? , (3) use of negation, wouldn"t you? . Some cultures think it is dishonest if you are indirect. Would you please be so kind . Sometimes can skip the hedging" (emergencies, doctor visits". Politeness includes also body language and has to take into account cultural differences . Maxim of manner maxim of politeness. Maxims of politeness are not part of grice"s theory.
