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ELT Journal 1997 51(1):21-28; doi:10.1093/elt/51.1.21
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Teaching the universals of politeness

Ardith J. Meier

Assistant Professor in the MA TESOL programme at the University of Northern Iowa. She is involved in research into contrastive sociopragmatics, language and culture, language and gender, and politeness theories. She has taught ESL/EFL and been involved in teacher preparation, in the USA and in Austria, for twenty years.

This paper argues that research invoking Brown and Levinson's theory of politeness in order to determine ‘rules of politeness’ should not form the basis of the teaching of ‘politeness phenomena’ in foreign and second language pedagogy. Rather, a refocusing is called for which views politeness as appropriateness. Such a view has implications for the foreign and second language classroom that centre on cultural awareness-raising.


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