title: Politeness as a way to encourage conversation
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metadata.value: Dmitrieva, Maria N.
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2024-01-22T21:22:26Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2024-01-22T21:22:26Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2023
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metadata.name: dc.identifier.citation
metadata.value: Dmitrieva M. N. Politeness as a way to encourage conversation. German Philology in St. Petersburg State University, 2023, iss. 13, pp. 228–240. https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu33.2023.112
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu33.2023.112
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/44611
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metadata.name: dc.description.abstract
metadata.value: The empirical material is the novel of the German-speaking writer B. Schirmer
  Schlehweins Giraffe. The research focuses on speech strategies and tactics of politeness
  as one of the components of verbal communication addressed to the Giraffe. Recorded
  in a text, the model of verbal and non-verbal behavior of a person, the author, trying
  to encourage a conversation with an animal is analysed. The category of politeness,
  thus, appears in a single discursive space with the direction. The relevance of the study
  is explained by the communicative and pragmatic approach applied to the analysis of
  speech addressed to an animal. The narrator treats the animal with great care. He also
  asks various questions to the Giraffe as he believes the Giraffe is able to communicate.
  However, the author fails to establish communication. The Giraffe is silent. The narrator
  uses directive linguistic means in the colloquial style of speech: brief questions,
  accentual particles, lexical and syntactic repetitions, appeals to the Giraffe and so on.
  The author-narrator repeatedly corrects his verbal behavior, uses various strategies,
  but, eventually, comes to the conclusion, that the Giraffe is incoherent. Finding herself
  in a usual natural environment, the Giraffe unexpectedly reproduces a phrase which
  belongs to the group of precedent texts, to the surprise of the narrator. The narrator
  understands the reasons for the Giraffe’s persistent silence. The communicative strategy
  of the author-narrator changes, his speech becomes rude and impolite. Thus, the
  language material illustrates the widest spectrum of politeness pragmatics and deviations
  from this speech strategy.
metadata.lang: en_GB
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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: German Philology in St Petersburg State University;Volume 13
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: modality of politeness
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: implicit and explicit politeness
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: directivity
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: literary narrative
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: verbal communication with an animal
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: Politeness as a way to encourage conversation
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: Article
metadata.lang: en_GB
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