1.2 An overview of Vietnamese spoken language Le (2013) cites Huynh (1987) who argues that the Vietnamese language has three mutually intelligible dialects‚ namely Southern‚ Central and Northern with distinctive phonetic differences. Although these dialects vary in tone and pronunciation‚ they do not prevent Vietnamese people from understanding each other in communication. Le (2013) argues that spoken Vietnamese has a long history‚ which is considered to have existed since the fourth century BC.
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describes the cultural difference between the savages and English in North America. “Perhaps‚ if we could examine the manners of different nations with impartiality‚ we should find no people so rude‚ as to be without as to be without any rules of politeness; nor any so polite as not to have some remains of rudeness” (Franklin 219). Franklin is saying that nations who are polite usually don’t have rules to have a polite society and societies that are expected to be polite are usually not. This is ironic
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H. (1986). Discourse: Scope without depth. In International Journal of the Sociology of Language‚ 57‚ 49-89. Keenan‚ E. O. (1976). On the universality of conversational implicatures. Language in Society 5.67-80. Lakoff‚ R. (1973). The logic of politeness‚ or minding your p ’s and q ’s. In Papers from the Ninth Regional Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society. 292-305. Loveday‚ L Mey‚ J. (1994). Pragmatics. An Introduction. Oxford: Blackwell. Thomas‚ J. (1984) Cross-cultural discourse as “unequal
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PRAGMATICS ACQUISITION I. INTRODUCTION In communications‚ one meaning or one function can be said with various form / structure. For instruction others‚ speaker can express it by imperative sentence‚ declarative sentence‚ or even with interrogative sentence. In communication‚ we sometimes experience of miscommunication because of we have a difference perception of a speaker’s intended meaning. From the simple description above‚ pragmatics is the correct one to be learnt because pragmatics helps
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• They Believed that uncertain speech patterns depend on power rather than gender and coined the term ’powerless language’ rather than ’women’s language’ (Part of deficit approach) Holmes 1992 • Believed that tag questions function as a politeness device‚ to help maintain discussion rather than as a sign of uncertainty (Lakoff’s theory). • Also suggested that women in same-sex groups used more compliments and hedgers a signs of support and solidarity. (Part of deficit approach) Coates
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with: “Sorry about the rain”. When he did this‚ 47% of strangers gave him their mobile‚ compared to only 9% when he simply asked to borrow their phone. Further experiments confirmed it was the apology about the weather that mattered‚ not the politeness of the opening sentence. “By saying ‘I’m sorry about the rain’‚ the superfluous apologiser acknowledges an unfortunate circumstance‚ takes the victim’s perspective and expresses empathy for the negative circumstance – even though it is outside
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In the service of social harmony‚ politeness often discourages the expression of negative emotions even if they are felt and encourages the expression of positive emotions even if they aren’t felt. I completely agree with this statement as I have often observed people responding in this manner. We have been always taught to be nice to others even if they do us bad or say something nasty but I feel that it limits the freedom of speech and also you are not being true to yourself and to the other person
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physical distance between the sender and receiver. Non-verbal communication plays an essential role when people are exchanging information (Newman J‚ 1998). Non-verbal communication can be portrayed by gestures‚ eye contact‚ facial expressions‚ politeness‚ posture‚ touch and physical distance. There are many advantages using non-verbal communication‚ such as; the health care professional can save on time and use it as a tool to communicate with people who don’t understand the English language. The
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Americans respond when they are offered something‚ she tells her own story which was happened when she went to visit her advisor two days after she arrived in America. That story shows that people from eastern cultures usually esteem the so - called politeness which is never showed in Americans. "Americans are very direct. When they want something they say "yes" and when they don’t they say "no"" (Polite but Thirsty 5). One thing I do not like about the essay is the author’s work on the tipping part.
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good understanding of the origin and social function of English euphemism and the English language Culture can avoid many conflicts in the process of social communication . [Key Words] origin; communicative function; evasion; cosmetic function; politeness [Abstract] euphemisms prevalent in the language of the world ’s cultural phenomenon‚ it is widely used in all social strata and fields. Euphemism as a euphemism in one of the many‚ has its deep roots produced‚ in which packets of religion and
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