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Studia Psychologica Vol.54, No.2, p.111-124, 2012

Title: POLITENESS FACTORS IN REQUESTS FORMULATED IN THE ‘CATEGORY WIDTH’ COGNITIVE STYLE
Author: Eva STRANOVSKÁ, Zuzana FRÁTEROVÁ, Daša MUNKOVÁ, Daniela MÜGLOVÁ
Abstract: Our paper focuses on analyzing speech acts in the process of formulating requests in the ‘category width’ cognitive style in a foreign language and mother tongue. We particularly focus on identifying the relation between politeness factors used by broad, medium broad and narrow categorizers in using speech acts of request in a foreign language and mother tongue. Politeness factors are divided into social factors: attention getters, the listener’s (direct formulation of requests) and speaker’s perspective (indirect formulation of requests) and expressive factors: pre-sequences, post-sequences, mitigating devices and minimizers. Our research was carried out on a sample of university students of English, German and Spanish. It is remarkable that narrow categorizers use politeness factors on a larger scale in foreign language than in their mother tongue and broad categorizers use politeness factors more extensively in their mother tongue. Additional research results are discussed in the present paper.

Keywords: ‘category width’ cognitive style, social factors of politeness, expressive factors of politeness
Year: 2012, Volume: 54, Issue: 2 Page From: 111, Page To: 124
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