Open AccessStrategie grzecznościowe w akcie mowy KONDOLENCJE (na materiale polsko- i niemieckojęzycznym)
Author(s) -
Dominika Janus
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
poradnik językowy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.19
H-Index - 3
ISSN - 0551-5343
DOI - 10.33896/porj.2020.2.5
Subject(s) - politeness , face (sociological concept) , courtesy , german , linguistics , indonesian , sociology , cult , psychology , political science , philosophy , law
CONDOLENCE, as an act of courtesy, belongs to acts of speech whichmight give rise to face threatening acts (FTA) and the resulting confl icts. Onthe one hand, the face of the mourner, who must fi nd his or her way in thenew extremely diffi cult situation, is threatened; on the other hand, the face ofthe speaker, whose task is to react properly to the fact of someone’s death, isthreatened. What is helpful in avoiding confl icts is politeness strategies used byboth senders and recipients. They constitute the research material excerptedfrom Polish and German obituaries and entries in books of condolence. Theauthor of this paper has proved that both parties signalise there both positivepoliteness, which arises from the need of appreciation and support, and negativepoliteness, which is connected with the need of unlimited autonomy of acting.The nature of the performed analysis is pragmalinguistic and is based on thepoliteness theory of P. Brown and S.C. Levinson [1987], the focus of which is theconcept of face understood as an image or representation.