Perception and production of politeness strategies in Spanish requests by French-speaking learners
(2016) Politeness across Languages and Cultures — Location: Helsinki (9.September.2016)
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Marsily, Aurélie 
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- (en) As many authors have pointed out, politeness is a universal concept but the ways in which this politeness is applied vary from culture to culture (Kerbrat-Orecchioni 2004). This is why learners may not always perform politeness accurately. I will discuss the similarities and differences in the perception and production of request formulations in Spanish by non-native learners, in comparison with Spanish native speakers. I will focus more specifically on the politeness strategies used by both groups, to analyze whether the learners are more capable of recognizing an appropriate speech act strategy than of producing it. The study is based on three data collection methods of requests between a student and a professor: naturalized role-plays questionnaires. The data is analyzed following a previously elaborated request taxonomy. (Tran 2006), written discourse completion tasks and perception My hypothesis is twofold. On the one hand, I postulate that Spanish native speakers use more direct requests (Cenoz 1999; Le Pair 1996) and that this reflects their culture of acercamiento (Briz & Albelda 2013). On the other hand, French-speaking learners are less direct in Spanish than native speakers, due to differences with their own language and culture. The results of these analyses will allow to understand the differences in politeness between perception and production of requests on the one hand, and between native and non-native productions on the other hand.
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Marsily, A. (2016). Perception and production of politeness strategies in Spanish requests by French-speaking learners. Politeness across Languages and Cultures, Helsinki. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/214282