FACE, POLITENESS AND SOCIAL DEIXIS IN SOCIAL INTERACTIONS.
When living within a society, we perform different social activities which are recognizable by other individuals or groups that are part of the same society. These activities can be done individually (reading a book, getting dressed) or collectively (a family reunion, a business meeting) but always keeping in mind that they are done by taking into consideration directly or indirectly other members of the community in order to have interaction. As Francis and Hester point out: even things we do alone are informed by our membership of society and our social relationships with others. (2004)
In order to have these interactions, language is a key element as a mean for communication. These interactions do not necessarily have to be face-to-face in, but we can also find examples in mediated communication such as emails or texting, as well as in body language or sign language situations, just to mention some examples. It is …show more content…
Examples of this would be the different way in which we can address a person according to his or her status. Levinson also mentions that there are two basic kinds of socially dietic information which are: relational and absolute, being relational the most important. In the relational we can find different kinds of relations such as: speaker and referent, speaker and addressee, speaker and bystander, and speaker and setting. In this relations the use of honorifics, which are distinctions of graduation between the different ranks of speakers and addresses, are found. In the absolute deictic information we can find authorized speakers and authorized recipients that are forms of language that
When living within a society, we perform different social activities which are recognizable by other individuals or groups that are part of the same society. These activities can be done individually (reading a book, getting dressed) or collectively (a family reunion, a business meeting) but always keeping in mind that they are done by taking into consideration directly or indirectly other members of the community in order to have interaction. As Francis and Hester point out: even things we do alone are informed by our membership of society and our social relationships with others. (2004)
In order to have these interactions, language is a key element as a mean for communication. These interactions do not necessarily have to be face-to-face in, but we can also find examples in mediated communication such as emails or texting, as well as in body language or sign language situations, just to mention some examples. It is …show more content…
Examples of this would be the different way in which we can address a person according to his or her status. Levinson also mentions that there are two basic kinds of socially dietic information which are: relational and absolute, being relational the most important. In the relational we can find different kinds of relations such as: speaker and referent, speaker and addressee, speaker and bystander, and speaker and setting. In this relations the use of honorifics, which are distinctions of graduation between the different ranks of speakers and addresses, are found. In the absolute deictic information we can find authorized speakers and authorized recipients that are forms of language that