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THE ROLE OF RELIGION IN SHAPING POLITENESS DURI...

Politeness is one of the very important issues in the field of sociolinguistics and pragmatics
as it can be seen in almost every type of our interactions. Since the evolving of politeness
theory (Brown and Levinson 1978)  cross-cultural pragmatics has gained the attention of many
researchers in this field. However  the Arab society has been far less investigated. Therefore
this book widens the scope of cross-cultural pragmatics by investigating politeness in
(Moroccan) Arabic and contrasting the behavior of Arab and German speakers with regard to one
type of politeness  namely the speech act of greeting. Furthermore  the implications of this
study for foreign language teaching and cross-cultural training indicate that politeness and
face concerns in different cultures should be part of any learning process. Hopefully  besides
being informative  especially to scholars from other fields of intercultural communication
research  this study should contribute to raise the awareness of sociolinguists in particular
with respect to the role of religion in shaping politeness in Arabic and to serious confusion
and misunderstandings that may come into being  when communicators from different cultural
backgrounds cannot identify the pragmatic (implicit or indirect) meaning of their
interlocutor's utterance.

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