The influence of social distance and power in email politeness in an academic context

This study examined the influence of social and power distance on students’ preferences of openings and closings and requestive strategies used when sending an email in an academic context. Students were more conventionally indirect with a person of higher power and greater social distance as well a...

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Auteur principal:	Victòria Codina-Espurz
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Langue:	ES
Publié:	Asociación de Jóvenes Lingüistas 2021
Sujets:	email requests openings closings (im)politeness (in)appropriateness correo electrónico peticiones aperturas cierres (des)cortesía (in)adecuación Romanic languages PC1-5498 Philology. Linguistics P1-1091 Language. Linguistic theory. Comparative grammar P101-410
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:bcec9a363d624090a2519d18eaa7a88f2021-12-01T18:03:35ZThe influence of social distance and power in email politeness in an academic context2340-9274https://doaj.org/article/bcec9a363d624090a2519d18eaa7a88f2021-12-01T00:00:00Zhttps://estudiosinterlinguisticos.files.wordpress.com/2021/12/codina-espurz-victoria-2.pdfhttps://doaj.org/toc/2340-9274This study examined the influence of social and power distance on students’ preferences of openings and closings and requestive strategies used when sending an email in an academic context. Students were more conventionally indirect with a person of higher power and greater social distance as well as when writing to their peers. However, email directness increased in emails to a faculty member with whom they maintain a closer social distance despite their status-unequal relationship. Familiarity with a higher-up may give students the authority to relinquish the sociopragmatic norms they, otherwise, would use in social-distant and power- unequal communication.Victòria Codina-EspurzAsociación de Jóvenes Lingüistasarticleemailrequestsopeningsclosings(im)politeness(in)appropriatenesscorreo electrónicopeticionesaperturascierres (des)cortesía(in)adecuaciónRomanic languagesPC1-5498Philology. LinguisticsP1-1091Language. Linguistic theory. Comparative grammarP101-410ESEstudios Interlingüísticos, Vol 9, Pp 44-59 (2021)
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topic	email requests openings closings (im)politeness (in)appropriateness correo electrónico peticiones aperturas cierres (des)cortesía (in)adecuación Romanic languages PC1-5498 Philology. Linguistics P1-1091 Language. Linguistic theory. Comparative grammar P101-410
spellingShingle	email requests openings closings (im)politeness (in)appropriateness correo electrónico peticiones aperturas cierres (des)cortesía (in)adecuación Romanic languages PC1-5498 Philology. Linguistics P1-1091 Language. Linguistic theory. Comparative grammar P101-410 Victòria Codina-Espurz The influence of social distance and power in email politeness in an academic context
description	This study examined the influence of social and power distance on students’ preferences of openings and closings and requestive strategies used when sending an email in an academic context. Students were more conventionally indirect with a person of higher power and greater social distance as well as when writing to their peers. However, email directness increased in emails to a faculty member with whom they maintain a closer social distance despite their status-unequal relationship. Familiarity with a higher-up may give students the authority to relinquish the sociopragmatic norms they, otherwise, would use in social-distant and power- unequal communication.
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The influence of social distance and power in email politeness in an academic context

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