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Author Chejnová, Pavla, author

Title How to ask a professor : politeness in Czech academic culture / Pavla Chejnová
Edition First English edition
Published Prague : Charles University in Prague, Karolinum Press, [2015]

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Description 1 online resource (124 pages)
Contents Cover; Contents; Introduction; 1. Politeness in language; 1.1 Searching for a politeness definition; 1.2 Approaches to (linguistic) politeness; 1.2.1 Face and facework; 1.2.2 Conversational and politeness maxims; 1.2.3 Discursive approach to politeness; 1.3 How laypersons in the Czech republic define politeness; 1.4 Impoliteness in language; 1.5 Function of politeness in society; 2. Politeness in the Czech republic; 2.1 Standard and common Czech; 2.2 Pronominal addressing; 2.3 T- and V-forms in academic settings; 2.4 Nominal addressing; 2.5 Nominal addressing in academic settings
2.6 Requests in Czech3. Previous research on computer mediated communication in institutional settings; 4. Analysis of requests for information sent to faculty; 4.1. E-mail requests for information; 4.1.1 Data; 4.1.2 Methodology and procedures; 4.1.3 Results; 4.1.3.1 Addressing and establishing contact in e-mail requests for information; 4.1.3.2 Level of directness in e-mail requests for information; 4.1.3.3 Syntactic downgraders in e-mail requests for information; 4.1.3.4 Lexical and phrasal downgraders and upgraders in e-mail requests for information
4.1.3.5 Supportive and aggravating moves in e-mail requests for information4.1.3.6 Substandard elements in e-mail requests for information; 4.1.4 Discussion; 4.2 Requests for information in students' information forum; 4.2.1 Data; 4.2.2 Methodology and procedures; 4.2.3 Results; 4.2.3.1 Establishing contact in requests for information on students' information forum; 4.2.3.2 Level of directness in requests for information on students' information forum; 4.2.3.3 Syntactic downgraders in requests for information on students' information forum
4.2.3.4 Lexical and phrasal downgraders and upgraders in requests for information on students' info4.2.3.5 Supportive and aggravating moves in requests for information on students' information forum; 4.2.3.6 Substandard elements in requests for information on students' information forum; 4.2.4 Discussion; 5. General discussion and conclusions; Resumé; List of tables; References; Author index; Subject index
Summary The publication addresses politeness strategies used by Czech University students when they contact faculties. Politeness in Czech society is also introduced: diglossia (contexts in which both, Standard and Common Czech tend to be used), nominal and pronominal addressing in the Czech society and in the Czech academic sphere, prototypical requests in Czech and their comparison to English and other languages. The book consists of two studies focusing on students' communication with faculties; the data include e-mail requests for information sent to the lecturer by students and requests for information posted on the students' information forum. The focus was on expressing politeness in the form of an address, opening and closing formulas, degrees of directness and amounts of syntactic, lexical/phrasal and external modification used in requests for information
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 109-116) and indexes
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed March 15, 2016)
Subject Teacher-student relationships -- Czech Republic
Communication in education -- Czech Republic
College students -- Czech Republic
Politeness (Linguistics) -- Czech Republic
EDUCATION -- Administration -- General.
EDUCATION -- Organizations & Institutions.
College students
Communication in education
Politeness (Linguistics)
Teacher-student relationships
Czech Republic
Form Electronic book
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