Politeness in the Foreign Language-Classroom

Seminar paper from the year 2017 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, grade: 2,0, , language: English, abstract: It is the aim of this paper to analyze how politeness currently is – and how politeness potentially could be – taught in foreign language classrooms. The focus will be on how foreign language students are – or could be – instructed to perform speech act...