Impoliteness recycled: Subject ellipsis in Modern Russian complaint discourse

Perelmutter, Renee

doi:10.1016/j.pragma.2010.07.005

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“…This is further substantiated by the use of singular personal pronoun 'ty' (T-form) in lines 8, 10, 13, 19 instead of the formal 'vy' (Vform), as well as the deployment of imperative form of verbs referring to second person singular (Tform) in line 19. These linguistic choices make relevant the higher level of social distance, power and formality, index a shift in register and confirm the TPO's orientation to the age asymmetry rendering the citizen's contestation to the TPO's discourse and situational identities non permissible (Friedrich 1972;Wade 1992;Perelmutter 2010). For the remainder of the encounter the TPOs continues attacking the driver as 'shameless', before moving away from the camera.…”

Section: )Listen(t) Don't Mess With My Head Go Out (T) If You're (T) mentioning

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Requests and counters in Russian traffic police officer-citizen encounters

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Ganchenko

Charalambidou³

2016

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This paper analyses video recorded interactions between police officers and drivers in traffic stops in Russia. The interactions were recorded via cameras installed on the drivers' car dashboards, and subsequently uploaded to YouTube; a practice to which over one million Russian motorists have resorted to counterbalance perceived high levels of bribery and corruption (Griaznova 2007). The analysis focuses on responses to opening requests for identification in five different encounters. These show that the drivers repeatedly engage in potentially interpersonally sensitive activities in which the vulnerability of face, especially that of the police officer, is interactionally manifested by launching counter requests in return. The organisation of the request -counter request sequences highlights how face and identity related concerns are interwoven in the participants' attempts to contest each other's authority.

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Section: )Listen(t) Don't Mess With My Head Go Out (T) If You're (T) mentioning

confidence: 81%

Requests and counters in Russian traffic police officer-citizen encounters

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Ganchenko

Charalambidou³

2016

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“…The definition and description of the category of politeness can be found in numerous papers and monographs: [1], [6], [11], [12], [16], [2], [7], [8], [4] among others. In general, politeness can be defined as a system of cultural scenarios and ritual strategies of communicative behavior that are aimed at a conflict-free interaction and are in compliance with socially-acceptable norms of interactive communication [7, p. 17].…”

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Negative Pragmatic Transfer as a Factor Jeopardizing Formation of Multicultural Personality in RFL Classroom (the case of request speech act)

Rumyantseva¹,

Nekora²,

Kozhevnikova³

2019

Proceedings of the International Conference on European Multilingualism: Shaping Sustainable Educational and Social Environment

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Language learning provides vast opportunities for formation and development of multicultural personality since language is a source and method of learning culture. However, sometimes this process may be hindered by lack of crosses between cultural awareness and negative pragmatic transfer resulting in culture shock. Cross-linguistic influence makes learners transfer their pragmatic and sociocultural knowledge from their native language into a target language without differentiating them. From this point of view, the speech act of request presents one of the areas that due to cultural and linguistic specifics of the Russian language might with great possibility be affected by negative pragmatic transfer on the part of Englishspeaking RFL learners. This paper contains results of research aimed at answering the question whether negative pragmatic transfer influences the production of Russian requests by English-speaking students and, if not, what other factors may hinder this process. The findings show that negative pragmatic transfer is an important but not the sole factor jeopardizing students' production of Russian requests. What is much more important is students' insufficient knowledge of means to express requests in the Russian language, which are vital in terms of pragmatics, i.e. linguistic means that affect politeness of requests in a positive or negative way, as well as a range of standard constructions for requesting in communicative situations with different sociolinguistic variables. Thus, developing pragmatic competence in this sphere can be a key factor facilitating cross-cultural awareness and formation of multicultural personality through language learning.

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“…More recent studies on gender in the field of pragmatics were conducted by Perelmutter (2010) and Abdolrezapour, Dabaghi and Kassaian (2012). Using contemporary Russian data, Perelmutter (2010) investigated linguistic strategies with subject ellipsis that Russian female speakers used in their complaints about family life in online forums.…”

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“…Using contemporary Russian data, Perelmutter (2010) investigated linguistic strategies with subject ellipsis that Russian female speakers used in their complaints about family life in online forums. However, she limited her study to female complaints; thus, her investigation does not provide any information about gender differences in complaints of Russian speakers.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Although there is a growing number of empirical studies on the speech act of complaint in the field of cross-cultural and interlanguage pragmatics (Schaefer 1982;Piotrowska 1987;Weinbach 1987, Olshtain andWeinbach 1993;Boxer 1993;Trosborg 1995;Arent 1996;Murphy and Neu 1996;Geluykens 2002, Kraft andGeluykens 2007;Tanck 2002;Tran 2002;Gershenson 1994Gershenson , 2003Kozlova 2004;Umar 2006;Prykarpatska 2008;Perelmutter 2010;Gallaher 2014), the research on the effect of gender on the realization or perception of complaints by native and non-native speakers remains limited (Boxer 1993;Geluykens 2002, Kraft andGeluykens 2007;Abdolrezapour, Dabaghi and Kassaian 2012).…”

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Effect of Gender on Language Performance of American Speakers, Russian Native Speakers, and American L2 Learners of Russian in a Complaint Situation

Gallaher

2014

Lodz Papers in Pragmatics

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The present study investigates linguistic choices and strategy selection of American speakers of English, Russian native speakers, and American L2 learners of Russian in their complaints by exploring the interaction of social factors and gender. The data was elicited through an open-ended discourse completion questionnaire and an assessment questionnaire. The qualitative analysis shows significant differences between genders in the group of Russian speakers. The major finding was that Russian males were more judgmental and direct in their complaints, but they were also more humorous and ironic than Russian females. Fewer differences were observed in the group of American speakers and American L2 learners of Russian. The findings indicate similar gender differences within each group and across groups in terms of strategy selection and the number of words. Some of the differences were statistically significant. The findings of the interlanguage analysis open areas for pedagogical intervention so that L2 learners better understand how to address males and females, as well as which linguistic strategies to use to minimize offense while negotiating a problem in Russian culture.

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Impoliteness recycled: Subject ellipsis in Modern Russian complaint discourse

Cited by 13 publications

References 35 publications

Requests and counters in Russian traffic police officer-citizen encounters

Requests and counters in Russian traffic police officer-citizen encounters

Negative Pragmatic Transfer as a Factor Jeopardizing Formation of Multicultural Personality in RFL Classroom (the case of request speech act)

Effect of Gender on Language Performance of American Speakers, Russian Native Speakers, and American L2 Learners of Russian in a Complaint Situation

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