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“The apology seemed (in)sincere”: Variability in perceptions of (im)politeness
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Abstract:
It is widely acknowledged that perceptions of (im)politeness vary across different cultural groups. However, the emphasis on cross-cultural or cross-linguistic variation has resulted in individual variability in perceptions of (im)politeness being relatively neglected in (im)politeness research. In this paper, we move to examine more closely the extent to which the individual variability in evaluations of the relative (im)politeness of an apology that emerged amongst the twenty-five Australian in a previous study (Chang and Haugh 2011) could be attested across a larger sample of eighty respondents. Our analysis confirms that there is indeed significant variability in elicited perceptions of (im)politeness with respect to the apology in question, and that the rationales that individuals draw upon to warrant their classifications of (im)politeness also vary significantly. We argue that this kind of variability amongst individual speakers in their perceptions of (im)politeness of the same discourse event has significant implications for the way in which we go about studying and theorising (im)politeness. However, we caution that while further experimental studies are clearly needed in (im)politeness research, it is important that they be grounded in studies of contextualised, naturally occurring discourse rather than being based on constructed or decontextualised instances of language use.
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Keyword:
(Australian) English; (im)politeness; 1203 Language and Linguistics; 1702 Artificial Intelligence; 3310 Linguistics and Language; Apology; Experimental pragmatics; Metapragmatics; Perception; Variability
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URL: https://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:6172439
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