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dc.contributor.authorConlan, Chris
dc.date.accessioned2017-01-30T12:54:48Z
dc.date.available2017-01-30T12:54:48Z
dc.date.created2008-11-12T23:25:21Z
dc.date.issued2004
dc.identifier.citationConlan, Christopher J.. 2004. Face Threatening Acts, Primary Face Threatening Acts, and the Management of Discourse: Australian English and Speakers of Asian Englishes, in Lakoff, Robin and Ide, Sachiko (eds), Broadening the Horizon of Lingustic Politeness, pp 129-144. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/26698
dc.description.abstract

Contemporary theories of linguistic politeness tend to be grounded in the pivotal concept of face threatening acts as formulated by Brown and Levinson. As a result, relatively scant attention has been paid to the ways in which politeness can also be a function of shared understandings concerning the appropriateness of discourse-staging strategies. This paper seeks to develop a perspective on linguistic politeness as it relates specifically to discourse organisation. To this end, the concept of face threatening acts (FTAs) has been augmented to introduce the notion of primary face threatening acts (PFTAs). Primary face threatening acts are seen to be speech acts by means of which pragmatic goals are ultimately attempted but which depend for their success upon being adequately framed by focussed discourse-specific and context-specific FTAs.The paper focuses on Australian English and suggests that politeness breakdowns which occur between native speakers of Australian English and speakers of English from non-Western backgroundscould well be the result of differing discourse-staging strategies. Preliminary data from research involving Thai and Japanese speakers of English and native speakers of Australian English are cited to examine this hypothesis.

dc.publisherJohn Benjamins
dc.subjectPrimary face threatening acts
dc.subjectAustralian English
dc.subjectFace threatening acts
dc.subjectAsian Englishes
dc.subjectPFTAs
dc.subjectFTAs
dc.subjectdiscourse strategies
dc.subjectLinguistic politeness
dc.subjectpoliteness breakdowns
dc.titleFace Threatening Acts, Primary Face Threatening Acts, and the Management of Discourse: Australian English and Speakers of Asian Englishes
dc.typeBook Chapter
dcterms.source.startPage129
dcterms.source.endPage144
dcterms.source.titleBroadening the Horizon of Lingustic Politeness
dcterms.source.conferenceHERDSA 2003 Conference
dcterms.source.conference-start-date6-9 July
dcterms.source.conferencelocationUniversity of Canterbury, Christchurch
dcterms.source.placeAmsterdam
curtin.departmentDepartment of Languages & Intercultural Education
curtin.identifierEPR-1085
curtin.accessStatusFulltext not available
curtin.facultyDivision of Humanities
curtin.facultyFaculty of Education, Language Studies and Social Work (ELSSW)
curtin.facultyDepartment of Languages and Intercultural Education


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