Ishiguro and Politeness Theory

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Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Ishiguro and Politeness Theory
Original language description
Though rarely made use of by either literary critics or teachers of second-language acquisition, politeness theory belongs to the pragmatic branch of linguistics. Proposed by Penelope Brown and Stephen C. Levinson in their foundational work Politeness: Some Universals (1987), politeness theory uses sociologist Erving Goffman’s concept of “face” to explain how one mitigates affronts to one’s self-esteem or public self-image, otherwise known as an FTA (face-threatening act). This provides a simple, but far from simplistic, schema for understanding the motivation and behaviour of people from different cultures, and how they interact to get what they want. This chapter will make use of politeness theory and other works built upon it to analyze cross-cultural literature, specifically Kazuo Ishiguro’s Remains of the Day (1989). The novel illustrates how people from competing anglophone cultures often misunderstand one another due to assumptions inherent to either positive or negative face values. Through these kinds of fictions, teachers of English as a second-language can be made more aware of their own cultural assumptions, as well as how fiction may be used as a cognitive/linguistic map for students preparing to use English as a lingua franca for their future cross-cultural and multicultural interactions.
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Publication year
2021
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Book/collection name
Anglophone Literature in Second-Language Teacher Education Curriculum Innovation through Intercultural Communication
ISBN
978-0-367-25652-4
Number of pages of the result
12
Pages from-to
150-161
Number of pages of the book
206
Publisher name
Routledge
Place of publication
London
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