Matching and Mismatching Verbal and Nonverbal Politeness in Egyptians’ Congratulation, Condolence, and Consolation | ||
| مجلة کلية الآداب | ||
| Article 15, Volume 60, Issue 1, July 2021, Pages 25-53 PDF (917.99 K) | ||
| Document Type: المقالة الأصلية | ||
| DOI: 10.21608/bfa.2021.184993 | ||
| Abstract | ||
| As how it is to be said is as important as what is said, being polite does not depend only on polite uttering but more on behaving politely. To argue for this regard, this study investigates the influence of speech-behavior matching and mismatching on the perception of politeness in Egyptians‟ social interactions of offering and responding to congratulations, condolences, and consolations. By multi-modally analyzing the verbal expressions and their synchronous nonverbal behaviors including facial expressions, gestures, body positions and orientations, touching, and tones of voice, in 165 scenes collected from three Egyptian television series concerning the interactions of congratulation, condolence, and consolation, this study aims at fulfilling a multimodal attitude of politeness through covering its linguistic and non-linguistic manifestations in the light of Brown and Levinson‟s (1987) Politeness Theory. With respect to the disparity of the social variables of gender, social distance, and power among Egyptian interlocutors, the attitude of politeness is appeared to be highly influenced by matching the verbal expressions with their co-nonverbal behaviors. | ||
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