Hi, Sir, can I have the book? Acquisition of politeness strategies in Galician language
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https://doi.org/10.32766/cdl.39.781Keywords:
politeness, request, pragmatic competence, childhood, Galician languageAbstract
Politeness is a key pragmatic competence for mastering a language and its acquisition is a process that begins in early childhood but it is not completed until adolescence. In addition, requests are one of the most demanding acts of politeness, since they pose a threat to the recipient, which leads to the need to use mechanisms to mitigate this threat, in order to preserve social relations and the proper development of the communicative exchange.
This work studies the process of acquiring the politeness strategies in the requests by Galician-speaking boys and girls, from the age of four to twelve. For this, we start from a fieldwork that allowed us to create a corpus of a total of 504 requests made by 21 informants divided into three different age groups. We analyse, from this corpus, which are the main politeness strategies used, as well as which variables seem to affect the use of one or other strategies and to what extent certain factors such as the age and sex of the informants.
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