ÑA Practical Guide for Functional Text Analysis
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Task 1. Brown and Levinson claim that Mediterranean cultures use positive politeness strategies more frequently tan Northern cultures. Do you agree? Why do you think this is so? Find examples from your every day life.
ÑA Practical Guide for Functional Text Analysis
Tenor in interactive texts
Interactive texts are usually spoken and include a face-to-face conversation, a telephone
conversation, but not a prepared lecture. Some written texts are also interactive, for
example a real-time Internet chat. To a lesser extent, written texts directed at a single
participant known to the writer (as opposed to those directed at the public) are also
interactive.
Relative status (equality, inequality)
When analyzing an interactive text for its tenor, you will be interested in the status of the
participants to each other. Are they equal, or is there some amount of equality between
them? This will typically be reflected in the choices the speakers make while speaking.
Speech acts
We recognize the following speech acts:
Information Goods and Services
Offer Statement (offer of
information), prototypically
realized by a declarative clause.
Sally made this coffee.
Offer (of goods and services),
usually realized by an
interrogative clause. Would you
like me to make coffee?
Request/Demand Question (request for
information), prototypically
realized by an interrogative
clause. Who made this coffee?
Command (request for goods and
services), prototypically realized
by an imperative clause. Make
coffee.
You will want to find out who has access to what type of speech acts.
• Those who mostly ask questions come across as needing or lacking information.
They are also causing those the questions are directed at to come across as having
the information.
• Those who mostly provide statements come across as possessing information
worth communicating. They are also making others come across as needing or
lacking the information.
• Those who mostly give orders (sentences in the imperative) are making
themselves
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