politeness survey

[Iryna Prykarpatska]

Hi Joseph,


Thank you very much for your recommendations. I have been thinking for quite
a long time how to  construct this questionnaire in the respect of the
socio-demographic characteristics of the interlocutors and as well as the
most prototypical situations in which the polite speech acts, which I
research (greetings, complaints), occur . And I decided to make the majority
of the questions in the questionaire open-ended, thus giving the respondents
certain freedom in providing their own responses. After I collect the
empirical data and I see the most prototypical answers I will be able to
group and classify them and then make another questionnaire with multiple
answers. Let's see what I get.
By the way, how do you research politeness, in what language and what polite
speech acts?

Thank you
Best regards
Iryna


2007/1/18, Joseph Peschio <peschio at uwm.edu>:
>
>
> Hi Iryna,




I tried to take your survey (always glad to help - especially because
> I'm very interested in politeness constructions), but I couldn't
> really complete it because it's very difficult to understand what,
> exactly, you're after because the scenarios are not really specific
> enough.  If I may be so bold, I'd suggest that you run the survey
> questions by a couple test subjects before you try to gather survey
> results from a broader sample.  Unfortunately, I'm a little pressed
> for time and can't help you in this regard just now.  I suspect your
> test subjects would tell you that it would be better if you provided
> them possible variants for each situation.  For example:  a) Hi  b)
> Hello  c) Good morning  d) How are you  e) Other
>
> Cheers,
> Joe
> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> Joe Peschio, PhD
> Coordinator, Slavic Languages and REES
> Foreign Languages and Linguistics/Slavic
> University of Wisconsin--Milwaukee
> Milwaukee, WI 53201-0413 USA
> (414) 229-4949
>
>

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