title: Requests in Swedish and English in terms of politeness
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metadata.value: Linevich, Natalia
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2020-01-15T07:20:09Z
metadata.lang: -
metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2020-01-15T07:20:09Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2019-09
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metadata.name: dc.identifier.citation
metadata.value: Linevich N. Requests in Swedish and English in terms of politeness. Scandinavian Philology, 2019, vol. 17, issue 2, pp. 234–246.
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/11701/spbu21.2019.203
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metadata.name: dc.identifier.uri
metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/16905
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metadata.name: dc.description.abstract
metadata.value: The paper deals with the analysis of request patterns in Swedish and English both
  in terms of their differences and similarities. The present research is mainly based on
  P. Brown and S. Levinson’s politeness theory (1978, 1987) as well as the model of social
  differentiation elaborated by W. Labov, A. Shveizer and V. Zabotkina. The latter is
  built on two axes of social differentiation of language: stratificational and situational.
  On the stratificational axis the analysis is carried out taking into account one of the
  three pragmatic parameters, namely the socio-economic one, where education is one
  of the crucial criteria for the present paper. The gender and age parameters are outside
  the scope of this paper. On the situational axis, the role relationships of the interlocutors
  (symmetric/asymmetric) and the tonality of the situation (official/unofficial) are
  taken into account. The data for this analysis came from a discourse questionnaire,
  which consisted of 3 situations requiring requests, and was filled by 50 Swedish and
  50 Russian respondents. The following classification has been proposed based on two
  criteria: 1) the indirectness of the utterances and 2) speaker-hearer -oriented formulas.
  As a result of the analysis, it becomes obvious that the realization of request patterns
  in the languages in question occurs mainly with the help of negative politeness strategies
  modifying their imposition. The speakers tend to use indirect hearer-oriented
  constructions (questions), semantic minimization, as well as impersonalization. Interrogatives
  on high-deference level of politeness are characteristic of persons with
  University degree (UD) in both languages, while statements on low-deference level of
  politeness are characteristic of representatives without University degree. However, the
  indirectness of utterances in the languages in question differs. The Swedish language is
  characterized by the fewer number of politeness strategies per utterance, which lowers
  its indirectness compared to the English language. The parameter of speaker-heareroriented
  formulas appeared not to be the leading one in the undertaken research.
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.language.iso
metadata.value: en
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Scandinavian Philology;Volume 17; Issue 2
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: politeness strategies
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: semantic minimization
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: impersonalization
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: speaker-hearer-oriented formulas
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: interrogatives
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: requests
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: Requests in Swedish and English in terms of politeness
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.type
metadata.value: Article
metadata.lang: en_GB
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