This new paper by our Dr Rickey Lu, published in the Journal of Politeness Research, investigates perceptions and evaluations of advice through an experiment that explores different advice formulations.
Designed to test the effect of different linguistic formulations of advice, this study examines how participants evaluated advice as manipulated in different experimental conditions. In particular, this paper reports on how these evaluations often invoke different aspects of Spencer-Oatey and Kádár’s politeness evaluation model. Moreover, the findings provide evidence that manipulating the linguistic features of advice can make certain aspects of the politeness evaluation model more salient for evaluation. The implications of this experiment point toward a possible relationship whereby linguistic realizations resonate across psychological and pragmatic dimensions of an interaction.
More information of the article can be found HERE.
