Negative Politeness and Interpersonal Harmony—The Analysis of Request-Response in Family Discourse - Open Access Library Journal

OALibJ > Vol.5 No.8, August 2018

Negative Politeness and Interpersonal Harmony—The Analysis of Request-Response in Family Discourse ()

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DOI: 10.4236/oalib.1104817 557 Downloads 1,821 Views Citations

Author(s)

Qi Wu^1,2

Affiliation(s)

¹School of Foreign Languages, Jiujiang University, Jiujiang, China.
²Department of English Language and Literature, Dong-A University, Busan, Korea.

ABSTRACT

This study aims to analyze negative politeness and interpersonal harmony in family discourse in verbal interactions between “son and mother”. Therefore, a pair of conversations which have the contrary effects (one is a failure and the other is a success) was analyzed. Based upon Spencer-Oatey’s Rapport Management Theory, the son’s request and his mother’s response were put into specific discussion. The results reveal that: 1) negative politeness can lead to an inharmonious or harmonious relationship and “affect” plays a unique role in maintaining interpersonal rapport; 2) the goal’s cost-benefit consideration and speaker’s perception/understanding/idea influence addressee’s response and addresser’s attainment of a request 3) the assertion of each other’s self-identity and right-obligation obviously enhances the tendency toward an establishment of harmonious relationship.

KEYWORDS

Negative Politeness, Interpersonal Harmony, Family Discourse, Rapport Management Theory

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Wu, Q. (2018) Negative Politeness and Interpersonal Harmony—The Analysis of Request-Response in Family Discourse. Open Access Library Journal, 5, 1-8. doi: 10.4236/oalib.1104817.

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