Foreign-language users confronting anti-normative politeness in a Mexican university
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12859797 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Gerrard Mugford (0000-0001-9828-7801, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 10 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Publication date | 2013-01-14 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Intercultural Pragmatics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1612-295X • E-ISSN: 1613-365X |
| Publisher | De Gruyter (PUBLISHER • DE) |
| DOI | 10.1515/ip-2013-0004 |
| OpenAlex | W2320483344 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
When foreign-language learners abandon the relative safety of the classroom and confront actual language use, they face decisions regarding how they wish to participate in a given target-language group. They may find that different interactional patterns and practices reflect a community's norms and how its members come across: Interactants may employ, for instance, seemingly impolite words and expressions in inoffensive ways. Although this phenomenon has been categorized as mock impoliteness, I will adopt the term anti-normative politeness (adapted from Zimmerman 2003) since interactants are ultimately engaging in polite rather than impolite practices. The foreign-language user's decision as to whether to engage in such practices will depend to a large extent on pragmalinguistic and sociopragmatic understandings and how she wants to come across – and is allowed to come across – in the target language. In this paper, I examine how French and German exchange students at a Mexican university approached and confronted the use of the normally insulting word güey , which seems to have become more and more prevalent in Mexican society. Findings indicate that foreign-language learners of Spanish understand the friendly intention underscoring the use of anti-normative politeness but fail to fully appreciate “positive politeness” (Brown and Levinson 1987) – such a key feature of Mexican interpersonal language use
Face (sociological concept · German · Interpersonal communication · Linguistics · Normative · Politeness · Politeness Theory · Political science · Pragmatics · Sociology · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies · Psychology · Social Psychology · Spanish Linguistics and Language Studies
| Unique citing works | 3 |
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| Citations per year | 0,25 |
| Citation span | 2014 - 2020 (7) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |