Politeness Accommodation in EFL context in Malaysian Language
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Description
Politeness
Accommodation in EFL context in Malaysian Language Centre: A case study among
international students
Chapter
1: Introduction
Politeness
can be defined as the means employed to show awareness of another person's
face. Politeness is defined by Brown & Levinson (1978-1987) as the action
of saying and doing things in way that the person takes into consideration the
other side's feeling. Haugh (2004) stated that politeness involves speakers’
showing what they think of themselves and others, and addressees’ perceptions
of those evaluations. According to Yang (2007, p. 155), “the degree of
indirectness and politeness indicates the speaker's view of the degree of
formality of a situation, the relationship between him and the hearer, his
judgment of the imposition on the hearer, and so on”. According to Brown and
Levinson (1987), and Leech (1983), direct requests seems to be impolite and
face threatening because they are intruding in the addressee’s territory, and
these authors argue that the preference for polite behavior is indirectness.
Leech (1983, pp. 131-32) suggests that “it is possible to increase the degree
of politeness by using more indirect illocutions”.
