THE CATEGORY OF POLITENESS: AN OVERVIEW OF CURRENT (IM)POLITENESS THEORIES

Authors

  • Yelena YERZNKYAN Yerevan State University

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.46991/FLHE/2019.23.1.162

Keywords:

verbal interaction, classical theories of politeness, post-modern (interactional) approaches, impolite communicative behaviour, communication strategies

Abstract

Thе paper introduces the current status of theories of politeness and compares them to the classical politeness models. Considering the publications of the last decade an attempt is made to carry out the analysis of recent papers in the field of politeness with special reference to the achievements in impoliteness research.

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Published

2020-05-31

Issue

Vol. 23 No. 1 (26) (2019)

Section

Linguistics

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