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Based on the paper, i think the content is analyze the relationship between indirectness and politeness in requests in Romania. Each country has different ways to attract people.. So in bahasa indonesia we know it as "lain ladang lain belalang, lain lubuk lain ikannya"..

I think this research is very interesting. The researchers found and made new breakthrough in communication by using indirectness in requests in language. I hope student of English Department can find ways and things to solve the problem in English as communication language. Regards

I think, it is interesting to know the differences of polite requests in Romanian, English and Hebrew based on the research findings of the most polite and least polite in directness scale and politeness scale.
In short, we could know which we will use a request in the polite request based on the research.

I think one country and another contries have different way to express politeness request. It's doesn't matter anyway, because all of the countries have their own way to express it. And we can't judge the other just because we think it's oplite or impolite. Maybe in here is polite to say something that we think polite but in other place maybe it doesn't polite. So, polite or not is has to be learn before, like I said because all of the countries have their own way to express politeness request.

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The topic is simple but quite interesting : politeness in requests related to the relationship between indirectness and politeness.
My comment based on the article is I interest with one of sentence there. uniquely there are two possibilities of the investigation.
One of them is differences/similarities between the relationship of what a person believes to be polite and what a person perceives as polite in current situation.
Though, i agree with the final conclusion that politeness in Romanian is almost like in hebrew.
I can conclude that every place has their level of politeness. We have to adapt it. Sometime we find a misunderstanding/miscommunication when we firstly go to some where new.
It's normal and we respect every single differences there as a unique things.

thanks sir, this is something new in my lecture experience, do lecture by online. I hope I can learn many things here. But, actually this is not my first time in joining such a forum like this sir, but I appreciate it very much,,,
I do very wait for when will you teach us about how to make a forum like this,,,,

Thank you sir i feel awesome for joining this forum. After I read the journal about "POLITENESS IN REQUESTS:SOME RESEARCH FINDINGS RELEVANT FOR INTERCULTURAL ENCOUNTERS", I ......(verb).... Its very important for us as student especially for English for Hotel lecturing because the article is to analyze the relationship between indirectness and politeness in requests.The research project supporting the findings of the paper was undertaken in order to find out to what extent politeness and indirectness are viewed as overlapping or mutually excluding categories by Romanians compared to other nationalities, such as the British and the Hebrew. Another inherent goal of the paper is to provide an example of the sociolinguistic instruments that can be employed in the investigation of the differences and similarities likely to emerge in intercultural encounters. ;Thus, we believe that only through similar research undertaken in the fields contributing to the emerging field of interculturality one can actually trespass the theoretical assumptions and move on to the identification of the right tools and means through which intercultural discourse to be approached at a pragmatic level and thus better understood and taught in educational establishments. Thank you Sir!!

oh my god....we learn with international method..
but...it must be interest...


thx sir... I'll write my comment here...

First of all,thank for the new experience on online learning. I have seen and read your journal about politeness in request: Some research findings relevant for intercultural encounters.. The aim of the article journal is to analyze the relationship between indirectness and politeness in requests. The journal chose sample of polite requests in Romanian, English and Hebrew. So, I could know and understood about it. I was great,I could draw is that Romanian is pretty close to Hebrew in terms of lingiustic strategies emlpoyed. We cannot claim though too much originality of findings because the restricted sample of respondents and the fact in Romanian are more likely to encounter conventional indirect polite strategies compared to Hebrew and English.

I think the journal talk about the relationship of politeness and indirectness in request. after I read it I can say that in each area has its own way of conveying politeness in request.

Thanks,Sir...

First of all, let me thank for this occasion because this is my first experience for joining this forum, sir. As what I have read the journal this morning from this address: journal.dresmara.ro/issues/volume2_issue2/14_codreanu_debu.pdf. It tells us about the research project supporting the findings of the paper which was undertaken in order to find out to what extent politeness and indirectness are viewed as overlapping or mutually excluding categories by Romanians compared to other nationalities, such as the British and the Hebrew. On the other hand, another inherent goal of the paper is to provide an example of the socio linguistics instruments that can be employed in the investigation of the differences and similarities likely to emerge in intercultural encounters. The theoretical background shows that to increase the degree of politeness is by using a more and more indirect kind of illocution. Illocutions tend to be more polite because they increase the degree of optionality and because the more indirect an illocution is, the more diminished and tentative its force tends to be. In order to attain these objectives, the researcher used the method called “the discourse completion test" (DCT). This method basically consists in creating a certain situation, where respondents are asked to engage in a conversation about a certain ordinary problem. The researcher gives the participants the first part of the conversation along with a description of the situation and asks the informant to complete this situation by supplying a continuation. Thus, a conclusion that the researcher could draw is that Romanian is pretty close to Hebrew in terms of the linguistic strategies employed. However, the current research also points out to the fact that in Romanians are more likely to encounter conventional indirect polite strategies compared to Hebrew and English. In this respect, the researcher cannot claim though too much originality of the findings due to the restricted sample of respondents. Beside, in Indonesian culture, the rating of politeness is very necessary starts from a child until an adult. It teaches us to make a good and nice sense to other persons, keep our arrogant and heart. Then, it remembers (reminds) us to keep our smile when whatever we feel, may be in good or bad situation, so smile is number one. More over, it is different in the heart. The people avoid to too respect to the others' compliments because we stand to be kindly. hehe
Thank you sir, these are what I could write. n_n"

thank you for correcting my comment, sir

Thank you sir about this new method of communicating. it's very useful. hopefully, it will be lively forum.