Positive and negative politeness in spoken Lithuanian

Kamandulytė-Merfeldienė, Laura; Vainilavičiūtė, Sandra

doi:10.22601/PET.2018.03.03

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Positive and negative politeness in spoken Lithuanian

Type of publication

Straipsnis Scopus duomenų bazėje / Article in Scopus database (S1b)

Author(s)

Author	Affiliation
Kamandulytė-Merfeldienė, Laura	Lituanistikos katedra / Department of Lithuanian Studies	LT
Vainilavičiūtė, Sandra	Politikos mokslų ir diplomatijos fakult. / Faculty of Political Science and Diplomacy	LT

Title

Positive and negative politeness in spoken Lithuanian

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Is part of

Philologia Estonica Tallinnensis. Tallinn : Tallinna Ülikooli Kirjastus, 2018, Vol. 3

Date Issued

Date
2018

Publisher

Tallinn : Tallinna Ülikooli Kirjastus

Is Referenced by

Scopus

Communication Source

Extent

p. 66-94

URI

URI
https://doi.org/10.22601/PET.2018.03.03
https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12259/60354

DOI

10.22601/PET.2018.03.03

Field of Science

Keywords (lt)

Keywords (en)

Abstract (en)

The aim of the research is to discuss the means of expression of positive and negative politeness in prepared and spontaneous spoken language. The research is based on the speech-act theory by Searle (1976) and the theory of positive and negative politeness by Brown and Levinson (1978, 2009). The research data are conversations from the Corpus of Spoken Lithuanian, which comprise semi-formal and formal communication in the media, academic discourse, and spontaneous communication in service domains. In total, the research data consist of 144,893 words. The research demonstrates that different politeness strategies are employed in different spoken language registers.