Some aspects of politeness in public speaking

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Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Some aspects of politeness in public speaking
Original language description
This paper studies aspects of politeness in public discourse in international institutional communication. The analysis is performed on a sample of speeches made by the Director-General of UNESCO; it focuses on the salutation part of the speeches, whichindicates the alignment of the speaker with the audience. The paper relates linguistic markers of politeness, such as lexical choice, modality and forms of address, to discourse strategies which may be regarded as genre-specific. The study has evidencedthat positive- and negative-politeness strategies used by the speaker are interwoven and that they correlate with discourse strategies indicating the alignment of the speaker with the audience to achieve existential coherence. The analysis has also proved that the language means used to convey politeness cannot be categorically assigned to particular politeness strategies and that their function and politeness value is context-dependent.
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Type
J<sub>x</sub> - Unclassified - Peer-reviewed scientific article (Jimp, Jsc and Jost)
CEP classification
AI - Linguistics
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Publication year
2007
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

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