“I have been seriously told that 'Poles/Russians/etc. are never polite'”(Leech 1983: 84) Since
the first systematic accounts of politeness have emerged from pragmatic theory in the late …

Pragmatic development involves learning to use linguistic code and non-linguistic action in
a well-integrated way in relation to an ongoing interaction. Given how different languages …

We propose a theoretical view of peer talk as a 'double opportunity space', functioning
concurrently on the plane of meaning making within childhood culture, as a locus for the co …

This study explores the cross-cultural difference in the change of sociopragmatic
competence by collecting perception and production data from native English-speaking …

Защита состоится 27 октября 2010 г. в на заседании диссертационного совета Д
212.243. 02 в Саратовском государственном университете им. НГ Чернышевского по …

Apologies have long been considered an important social action in many languages for
dealing with frictions of everyday interaction and restoring interpersonal harmony in …

The current thesis contributes to the existing literature on politeness research and teaching
English as a second language (TESOL) by investigating requests and apologies as …

Requests for forgiveness can effectively silence and delegitimize anger, and requests to
publicly perform emotional labor can effectively make that labor both required and …

This study of the pragmatic development of the speech act of apology compares perception
and production data from Mandarin-speaking participants in different age groups. Using a …

In this article, we analyze pupils' prosodic realizations of the apology sequence anteeksi–
saat anteeksi “I apologize–apology accepted”, focusing on pitch, rhythm, and loudness …