Publication details
Politeness strategies in institutional speech acts.
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| Year of publication | 2005 |
| Type | Article in Proceedings |
| Conference | Discorse and Interaction 1. Brno Seminar on Linguistic Studies in English: Proceedings. Spisy Pedagogické fakulty. |
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| Citation | |
| Field | Linguistics |
| Keywords | speech acts; negative politeness strategies; positive politeness strategies; power; institutional context |
| Description | This contribution is concerned with the language used in regulative institutional speech acts in the field of diplomatic discourse. The central object of study are directive speech acts in UNESCO resolutions with a particular view to relating the semantic analysis of directive verbs to politeness strategies. The analysis suggests that the choice of directive speech act verbs and their co-occurrence with particular addressees are motivated by the socio-pragmatic situation. |