期刊名称：International Journal of English and Education
印刷版ISSN：2278-4012
出版年度：2013
卷号：2
期号：1
出版社：Brahmaputra Publishing House
摘要：The notion of politeness is formed by different cultural perceptions. Indifferent situations and contexts, politeness may be interpreted and evaluateddifferently by various cultures. This study aims at investigating how politenessstrategies are utilized in three different fields of English at MA level in Iran includingTeaching, Translation, and Literature in order to find out whether the field of studycan have an influence on using politeness strategies on the part of learners or not .The theoretical framework employed in the study was that of Brown and Levinson(1978), which has been tested cross-linguistically and proved to be the most usefulmodel in analyzing the pragmatics of politeness in conversation. To achieve theseobjectives, the related data were collected based on a questionnaire including 12different role-playing situations (Brown and Levinson, 1978). The qualitative andquantitative analysis revealed that in all of the three groups selected for the purposeof this study, the Risk of the imposition is the most effective factor in elicitingpoliteness followed by the Power of the addressee over the speaker; the 'SocialDistance' came out as the least effective factor. Teaching group used politenessstrategies more than the two other groups and the Translation group used politenessstrategies less than the two other groups. The findings of the study can be importantfor EFL teachers because they should also pay attention to teaching cultural aspectsas part of the curriculum when teaching a foreign language.
