Politeness Strategies Used in Text Messaging

Politeness Strategies Used in Text Messaging

One aspect of short message service (SMS) communication through a cell phone is use of politeness strategies. As it is extensively argued that females are more polite language users, the present study sought to describe the strategies used by these two groups and to find out whether there is any sig...

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Main Authors: Shahrzad Eshghinejad, M. Raouf Moini
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SAGE Publishing 2016-03-01
Series:SAGE Open
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1177/2158244016632288
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spelling doaj-cf3af4e80e504b1997cc3730dd1364982020-11-25T02:59:18ZengSAGE PublishingSAGE Open2158-24402016-03-01610.1177/215824401663228810.1177_2158244016632288Politeness Strategies Used in Text MessagingShahrzad Eshghinejad0M. Raouf Moini1University of Kashan, Isfahan, IranUniversity of Kashan, Isfahan, IranOne aspect of short message service (SMS) communication through a cell phone is use of politeness strategies. As it is extensively argued that females are more polite language users, the present study sought to describe the strategies used by these two groups and to find out whether there is any significant difference between male and female English as a foreign language (EFL) learners in the use of positive and negative politeness strategies in sending SMS to their professors, considering that there is an asymmetric power relation and social distance between them. To this end, a corpus of 300 L1 (Persian) and L2 (English) request messages was compiled. Results of qualitative and quantitative data analysis showed no significant difference between the two groups. Results of the study have implication in politeness research.https://doi.org/10.1177/2158244016632288
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description One aspect of short message service (SMS) communication through a cell phone is use of politeness strategies. As it is extensively argued that females are more polite language users, the present study sought to describe the strategies used by these two groups and to find out whether there is any significant difference between male and female English as a foreign language (EFL) learners in the use of positive and negative politeness strategies in sending SMS to their professors, considering that there is an asymmetric power relation and social distance between them. To this end, a corpus of 300 L1 (Persian) and L2 (English) request messages was compiled. Results of qualitative and quantitative data analysis showed no significant difference between the two groups. Results of the study have implication in politeness research.
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