MA-Thesis: An analysis on politeness strategies used by teachers and students in english classes at school of foreign languages, thai nguyen university
MA- Thesis An analysis on politeness strategies used by teachers and students in english classes at school of foreign languages, thai nguyen university was conducted to analyze the politeness strategies used by teachers and students in English classes at School of Foreign Languages, Thai Nguyen University. The research describes what types of politeness strategy used by teachers and what types of politeness strategy used by students in English classes
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1. Preface
1.1 Rationale
Over the last four decades, together with many other aspects of pragmatics, politeness is one of the most popular areas. It has been traditionally studied on the basis of ordinary conversation. Studies on politeness have been recently conducted worldwide especially in the area of sociolinguistics and anthropolinguistics. First illuminated by Brown & Levinson (1987) with the idea of “face-saving view”, politeness issues have been further explored in many different languages and contexts. According to Yule (1996), politeness strategies are very important to investigate as it is used by people in their social interactions and in the specific contexts, knowing what to say, how to say, when to say, and to be with other people
1.2 Aims of the study
To identify and analyze politeness strategies used by teachers and students in English classes at SFL-TNU.
To offer suggestions for teachers and students in using politeness strategies in a more effective way
1.3 Scope of the study
As many concepts in pragmatics, analysis discourse and linguistics, the concept of politeness is not easy to define. Due to its complexity, limited material resource as well as the writer‟s knowledge, this thesis only focuses on the politeness strategies used by teachers and students in SFL-TNU after the relating concepts are made clearly. It is only intended for the first year students in SFL-TNU
1.4 The significance of this study
This study is expected to have theoretical and practical benefits in using politeness strategies during English teaching and learning process. First, hopefully, it is not only a source for other researchers in their paper but also a provision of knowledge for the teachers and students in teaching and learning process by applying the research findings.
2. Content
2.1 Literature review
Theoretical framework
Previous studies in the scope of politeness strategies
2.2 Research methodology
Research questions
The research design
Context of the study
Data collection instruments
Data collection procedure
Data analysis procedure
2.3 Findings and discussion
Research findings
Discussion
3. Conclusion and recommendations
In communication, politeness strategies have aroused much more attention. People often fail to achieve the communicative goal due to misunderstanding with each other. Therefore, having good knowledge of politeness strategies is essential because politeness strategies help to keep the conversations going in a smooth, natural and effective way
4. References
Austin, J. L. (1962). How to do things with words. New York: Oxford University Press, Oxford.
Ayu Gemasih (2018). An analysis on politeness strategies employed by lecturers in speaking class. Thesis, Ar-Raniry state Islamic university.
Brown, P., & Levinson, S. (1987). Politeness: some universal in language usage. Cambridge University Press
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