politeness strategies

[Aqib Habib]

sir, please tell me how i would search politeness strategies in a speech on this very software.

[Laurence Anthony]

Hi,

For this task, you need to define the phrases that signal politeness. Then, you can use the AntConc KWIC tool and the other tools to search for these phrases and see how they are used in context.

I hope that helps.

Laurence.

On Sun, 26 May 2024 at 19:46, Aqib Habib <aqibha...@gmail.com> wrote:

sir, please tell me how i would search politeness strategies in a speech on this very software.

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[Aqib Habib]

Well Sir but the question is that how i will use AntConc ? Is there any specific key?

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[Troy E. Spier]

What Laurence is saying is that there's no automated way to get a list of all examples without knowing first what defines politeness. For instance, politeness in English might be expressed through the use of particular lexical items (e.g. 'please' and 'thank you'), adverbials (e.g. 'perhaps' and 'maybe'), prosaic expressions (e.g. 'if it would not be too much trouble'), modality (e.g. 'could' or 'might'), etc. Once you've decided what those prototypical features of politeness are, then you can search for them in your corpus before undertaking the analysis. On the other hand, if you're looking for something that tries to take care of this more programmatically, then you'd want to start learning about sentiment analysis. That's going to require a different tool and a different set of skills, though.

[Aqib Habib]

Ok Sir, thanks for the clarification. I will do work on this.

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