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Abstract
English Summary
This study aims at investigating the phenomenon of politeness linguistically as well as non-linguistically by measuring the extent to which the co-occurring of verbal expressions and nonverbal behaviors matches affect perceiving a complete attitude of politeness through analyzing the social interactions of giving and responding to congratulations, condolences, and consolations. The study explores a corpus of televised Egyptian verbal and nonverbal interactions concerning the aforementioned social interactions in three Egyptian dramas, namely Al Du:? El-Shaarid (Stray Light, 1998), Lann A؟i:sh fi Gilbab Aby (Falling Far from My Father’s Shadow, 1996), and El-Watad (The Wedge, 1996), in relation to Brown and Levinson’s (1987) Politeness Theory.
As how it is to be said is as important as what is said, being polite does not depend only on polite uttering but more on behaving politely. To argue for this regard, this study investigates the influence of speech-behavior matching on the perception of politeness in Egyptians’ social interactions. By multi-modally analyzing the verbal expressions and their synchronous nonverbal behaviors including facial expressions, gestures, body positions and orientations, touching, and tones of voice, in 165 scenes collected from three Egyptian television series concerning the interactions of congratulation, condolence, and consolation, this study aims at fulfilling a multimodal attitude of politeness through covering its linguistic and non-linguistic manifestations in the light of Brown and Levinson’s (1987) Politeness Theory. With respect to the disparity of the social variables of gender, social distance, and power among Egyptian interlocutors, the attitude of politeness is appeared to be highly influenced by matching the verbal expressions with their co-nonverbal behaviors. In relation to the tackled contexts, the results reveal that perceiving positive social attitudes of politeness are only checked on speech-behavior matches. Nevertheless, not all mismatches are impolite. Considering some consolation attitudes, the interlocutors are found to mismatch their speech-behavior to save the other’s face.