This term paper is concerned with the question of whether or not two pragmatic approaches to language can be adapted to the phenomenon of politeness and be combined under certain aspects. The specific question is: Can Penelope Brown and Stephen C. Levinson’s model of politeness completely be described through the terminology and perspective of Grice’s?
I will therefore, in a first step, compare both models under these aspects and then try to combine them. Depending on to what degree this can be done, I shall afterwards explain the differences that hinder a complete merging, if they exist. In a second step, I will adapt the new knowledge exemplarily to a corpus and repeat the comparison deductively on a practical level.
Table of Contents
1. Introduction
2. Thesis
3. Grice’s Maxims and his cooperation principle
4. Brown and Levinson’s face-threatening acts
5. Merging both in theory
5.1. Cooperative principle
5.2. Maxims
5.3. Conclusion
6. Explanatory statement regarding the corpus
7. Method
8. Exemplary practical proof
8.1. Arthur: “[] Ron, get out of the kitchen. We’re all hungry.” (28f)
8.2. Dumbledore: “I’d like to make an announcement . []“ (46f)
8.3. Seamus: “Can I have a go, Harry? After you, of course.” (138)
9. Conclusion
10. References
11. Attachment: Corpus
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