Perceptions of Impoliteness from a Cultural Linguistics Perspective

Sharifian, Farzad; Tayebi, Tahmineh

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“…While practicing ru-dar-bayesti, the distance felt by Iranians tends to make them hesitant about performing an FTA (Babai Shishavan & Sharifian 2013). Sharifian and Tayebi (2017) characterize ru-dar-bayesti as a state or feeling triggering ta'arof, suggesting, as Babai Shishavan and Sharifian showed, a higher degree of ru-dar-bayesti leads to a stronger need to practice ta'arof.…”

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Perception of impoliteness in refusal and response to it by native speakers of English and Persian

Tajeddin

Moqadam

2023

Russian Journal of Linguistics

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Impoliteness entails the employment of strategies oriented toward attacking face and bringing about social disruption. Although research on impoliteness has received great attention in the past two decades, how impolite utterances are perceived and what the recipients of impoliteness do in return has remained relatively under-addressed. The current study set out to examine native English and Persian speakers’ perceptions of and response to impoliteness in the production of the speech act of refusal. To this end, 90 native English speakers and 120 native Persian speakers were administered a written discourse completion task containing eight refusals that either observed politeness or contained various degrees of impoliteness. The results showed that native Persian speakers did not perceive any of the refusals to be impolite whereas three of the refusals were considered impolite by native English speakers. When reacting to impoliteness in refusals, native English speakers exploited a wider range of strategies than did Persian speakers. The results showed that social distance and power relations were of more significance for Persian speakers than for English speakers in perceiving the degree of impoliteness; however, in responding to an utterance perceived as impolite, English speakers were more likely to adopt offensive strategies to counter impoliteness, including positive and negative impoliteness strategies. These findings indicate both cross-cultural divergence and convergence in the perception of impoliteness and responses to impoliteness.

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Perception of impoliteness in refusal and response to it by native speakers of English and Persian

Tajeddin

Moqadam

2023

Russian Journal of Linguistics

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“…This is a fairly encompassing term that refers to the architecture of concepts/schemas, norms, and values/ideologies that establish behavioural expectations and are thus invoked by individuals when needing to ground their evaluations of behaviour, particularly in the case of perceived norm violations (see Garcés-Conejos Blitvich and Kádár 2021). Beyond the evaluation of behaviours in terms of morally laden adjectives, research has shown that when individuals are asked to justify their positive or negative evaluations of behaviour, they will frequently draw on further notions with moral overtones, such as 'dignity', 'care', 'respect', 'fairness' (see, e.g., Davies 2018, Kádár 2020, Sharifian and Tayebi 2017. Such notions are cited as things that people should value, and thus behavior which contravenes them, will be evaluated negatively.…”

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Shifting the evaluative lens in language and intercultural education

McConachy¹

2023

Negotiating Intercultural Relations

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“…The results showed that Persian speakers largely instantiated the cultural schema in their responses to compliments in both Persian and English, whereas the Australian participants' responses did not reflect a similar schema though in some cases their responses overlapped with those of Persian speakers in downplaying the trait that was the target of the compliment. Sharifian and Tayebi (2017) investigate the perceptions of impoliteness among Persian speakers, drawing on discourse analysis and the ethnography of cultural conceptualizations that are applied to different situations in which interlocutors perceive impoliteness. They maintain that conceptualizations of (im)politeness in Persian are associated with the over-arching cultural schema of adab roughly meaning 'courtesy, politeness, social etiquette, manners', which is conceptually linked to other cultural conceptualizations, such as shakhsiyat 'personality and character or one's effort to construct a socially acceptable image of himself/herself', sho'ur 'the cognitive ability to assess social situations properly and act and behave accordingly', tarbiyat 'upbringing, especially the role of family in one's upbringing' (p. 395).…”

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“…In some aspects, enryo shows some general similarities to some emotion concepts in Persian. For example, the concept of rudarbayesti 'the state or feeling of distance out of respect' (Sharifian & Tayebi, 2017), similar to enryo, may be used to refrain from directly expressing desires and wants. Or, haya 'self-restraint' is similarly used to refrain from offending or embarrassing other people.…”

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Cultural model of sexuality in Persian: A cognitive linguistic investigation of key concepts in Iranian culture

Bakhtiar¹

2018

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This research is a cognitive linguistic investigation of the concepts of GHEIRAT 'moral vigilance', HAYA 'self-restraint', EFFAT 'chastity', and HEJAB 'veiling', which comprise the core of control mechanism in Iranian culture. The study aimed to find out whether these moral values are interrelated and examine how cognitive linguistics can contribute to discovering the ways in which they are connected to each other and fulfill their functions in the course of controlling the sexuality of men and women. The study finds that the Persian concepts are interrelated and form a conceptual cluster that operates to regulate the sexuality of Iranians. The interrelationship between the concepts and their systematic functioning was demonstrated through lexical collocates, shared conceptual metaphors, conceptual metonymies, categorization, and embodiment.The analysis reveals that gheirat, haya, effat, and hejab are part of a larger cultural model that operates to keep a legitimate, safe distance between men and women. According to the analysis, the cultural model of sexuality in Persian is founded on and guided by the Islamic principle of mahramiyat 'legitimate intimacy', which pulls together gheirat 'moral vigilance', haya 'self-restraint', effat 'chastity', âberu 'face/public image', nâmus 'female family members', harim 'holy space/border', and hejab 'veiling' in order to keep the sexes segregated.Within the identified model, mahramiyat 'legitimate intimacy' defines the specific category of people toward whom one should maintain a certain physical and social distance.Gheirat surveils the situations in which social interactions take place. It monitors the conducts of individuals, triggering reactions in people to tackle cases of taboo violation through admonishing, criticizing, fighting with, and, in extreme cases, through murdering the perpetrators. Haya 'self-restraint' operates to prevent the self from causing and feeling (further) shame through holding back the self, setting up a barrier between the self and what is considered as taboo, offensive, shameful, and unpleasant. Effat 'chastity' exclusively functions to discipline the body and set limits to bodily desires. It specifically deals with concealing illegitimate sexual desire so as to prevent the person from transgressing norms of conduct. Nâmus 'female family members' represents the heightened significance of women as holders of the family's honor and of their manner of conduct in society. Female family members are also strongly protected by men against social threats, such as sexually charged looks, sexual comments, and rape. Harim 'holy space/border' marks the boundary between cultural values and taboo behavior, assigning a high degree of sanctity to cultural values, and

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Perceptions of Impoliteness from a Cultural Linguistics Perspective

Cited by 14 publications

References 29 publications

Perception of impoliteness in refusal and response to it by native speakers of English and Persian

Perception of impoliteness in refusal and response to it by native speakers of English and Persian

Shifting the evaluative lens in language and intercultural education

Cultural model of sexuality in Persian: A cognitive linguistic investigation of key concepts in Iranian culture

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