Politeness, Thanking and the Influence of Gender in Writing Thesis Acknowledgements

ISBN-13: 9783668027091 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 48 str.

Arwa Luay Abdulkhaleq; Kamal Hussein

Opis

Research Paper (undergraduate) from the year 2012 in the subject Sociology - Communication, grade: 89, University of Mosul (College of Education), course: Pragmatics, language: English, abstract: The present study aims at identifying the pragmatic features and patterns of gratitude expressions in acknowledgements and trying to figure out how the politeness principles work in expressing gratitude and investigating the influence of the acknowledger's gender on the pragmatic performance of the speech act of thanking. It is based on the hypothesis that politeness principles affect the performance of the acknowledgers in expressing their gratitude. Also, the acknowledger's gender may affect his/ her performance of thanking.