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Visar resultat 11 - 15 av 92 uppsatser innehållade ordet politeness.

  1. 11. Sorry, I apologize! : The difference between men’s and women’s usage of apologies in emails

    Kandidat-uppsats, Örebro universitet/Institutionen för humaniora, utbildnings- och samhällsvetenskap

    Författare :Gustav Lindroth; Rebecca Ucar; [2022]
    Nyckelord :Email; Enron Corpus; apologetic expressions; politeness; gender;

    Sammanfattning : This essay aims to discover differences and similarities in the linguistic behavior ofpoliteness in apologetic expressions between men and women in emails. Material wastaken from the Enron Corpus. This Corpus includes information about the senders andrecipients of the chosen email, the context, and an email thread. LÄS MER

  3. 12. Directness and indirectness in the pursuit of love : A qualitative study on manifestations of directness and indirectness in the reality TV show Love on the Spectrum

    Uppsats för yrkesexamina på grundnivå, Jönköping University/Högskolan för lärande och kommunikation

    Författare :Malin Ringqvist; [2022]
    Nyckelord :Directness; indirectness; implicature; entertainment;

    Sammanfattning : When it comes to human communication, there are several possible ways of expressing the same idea. This is often explained in terms of direct and indirect speech acts. LÄS MER

  4. 13. Do we even care about politeness anymore? : A mixed-methods study of societal perceptions on pragmatic competence in English

    Master-uppsats, Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionen

    Författare :Nellie Lindqvist; [2022]
    Nyckelord :Cross-cultural pragmatics; ELF; speech-act theory; politeness theory; sociopragmatic competence; sociolinguistics;

    Sammanfattning : Politeness is viewed as an admirable trait by most people, yet what it means to be polite is arguably a controversial issue when it comes to using English, as people of different ages, education levels, and proficiency levels use English daily, and may have different views on politeness. These observations raise questions about whether there are certain universal pragmatic rules, or if pragmatic rules are primarily language- and/or culture-specific. LÄS MER

  5. 14. “Och då står det mellan grön och blå. Den talande kuken eller de fina vackra händerna?” : En multimodal kritisk diskursanalys av tv-programmet Naked Attraction Sverige.

    Kandidat-uppsats, Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för informatik och media

    Författare :Sara Hovstadius; Christine Griffin Lindahl; [2022]
    Nyckelord :Naked Attraction Sverige; MCDA; normer; kroppslig mångfald; kroppspositivitet; kroppsbedömning;

    Sammanfattning : The aim of this study is to examine how a diversity of bodies are represented in Naked Attraction Sweden. Our interest in how the TV-show represents bodily diversity is based on the fact that the program is new to the realm of reality and dating television, as well as contributes to a new genre. LÄS MER

  7. 15. Ansiktshot i klassrummet : En mikrostudie av skarpa ansiktshot under lektionstid

    Kandidat-uppsats, Högskolan i Gävle/Svenska språket och genusvetenskap

    Författare :Fanny Almén; [2022]
    Nyckelord :classroom management; conversation analysis; face; face-threatening acts; institutional conversations; politeness theory; ansikte; ansiktshot; artighetsteori; institutionella samtal; klassrumsordning; samtalsanalys;

    Sammanfattning : This essay aim to examine face-threatening acts (FTA) during two lessons with a group of students in class 9 in Sweden. The purpose of the study is to identify and analyze sharp face-threatening acts, how they emerge in the classroom and whatkind of strategies the teacher uses to maintain classroom management. LÄS MER