Linguistic politeness in social networks.
From the viewpoint of information transaction models in linguistic pragmatics, expressions of linguistic politeness (LP) induce costs upon speakers. That speakers regularly “pay" such cost is what formal models of LP typically explain either by individual-level strategic considerations (e.g., the sp...
| Publicado en: | Synthese Vol. 203; no. 6; pp. 1 - 25 |
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Springer Nature
Jun2024
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=hlh&AN=177784262&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: hlh uiTerm: 177784262 longDbName: Humanities International Complete uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: jinfo: jid: 00397857 4LI jtl: Synthese issn: 00397857 maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: Jun2024 vid: 203 iid: 6 pid: 237 pub: Springer Nature artinfo: ui: 177784262 10.1007/s11229-024-04642-8 ppf: 1 ppct: 24 formats: fmt: – @attributes: type: T – @attributes: type: P size: 1.2MB tig: atl: Linguistic politeness in social networks. aug: au: Tang, Liping affil: https://ror.org/0064kty71 Department of Philosophy, Institute of Logic and Cognition, Sun Yat-sen University, 510275, Guangzhou, China sug: keyword: Conventional model Game theory Linguistic politeness Social network Strategic model ab: From the viewpoint of information transaction models in linguistic pragmatics, expressions of linguistic politeness (LP) induce costs upon speakers. That speakers regularly “pay" such cost is what formal models of LP typically explain either by individual-level strategic considerations (e.g., the speaker’s aim of avoiding a face-threat to the hearer) or community-level conventional considerations (e.g., the use of LP as a relation-acknowledging device). Because these explanations are compatible, as each relates to the speaker and hearer’s social relation, we combine them into a single game-theoretical model enriched by three types of social network structures (ring-shaped, star-shaped, and complete). Using simulation studies of (single and repeated) speech acts of requesting, we let the degree of LP be determined by (i) the degree of social imposition associated with a request, (ii) the number of interlocutors’ past interactions, and (iii) the relative importance of strategic and conventional considerations. The greatest average optimal degree of LP is obtained in the star-shaped network, which intuitively corresponds to a power-centered, hierarchical society. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Article src: R language: English refInfo: copyright: @attributes: flag: Y custom: Synthese is a copyright of Springer, 2024. All Rights Reserved. item: Synthese holder: Springer Nature dt: @attributes: year: 2024 holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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