| Title: | Romanian Politeness before 1989: the Influence of Communist Ethics |
| Author: | Cerasela Mihaela Enache |
| Publication: | Annals of „Valahia” University of Târgovişte. Letters Section, VII |
| p-ISSN: | 2066-6373 |
| Publisher: | Valahia University Press |
| Place: | Târgoviște |
| Year: | 2009 |
| Abstract: | The theoretical research in the domain of politeness, begun with Brown and Levinson (1978) and continued by numerous researchers, inspired a huge amount of cultural analysis on different communities. Many linguists have focused on politeness, as it seems to be a domain giving birth to numerous intercultural misunderstandings. So far, the research has shown that face threatening and face flattering acts are culturally variable and specific, depending on social distance between speaker and hearer, authority of hearer on speaker, potential threat of a specific act in the culture where it occurs. In the domain of politeness, the influence of the Romanian communist regime on the people who were formed during the respective period included an array of impositions (from compulsory terms of address to forbidden words and ideas), language being put in the service of a limited ideology instead of serving truth, personal relation and communication, and freedom. |
| Key words: | politeness, social context, ideology, positive face, negative face, face threatening act, face flattering act |
| Language: | English |
| Links: |  pdf |
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