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Videoconferencing and principles of politeness

HRADILOVÁ, Alena

Basic information

Original name

Videoconferencing and principles of politeness

Name in Czech

Videokonference a zdvořilostní principy

Authors

HRADILOVÁ, Alena (203 Czech Republic, guarantor, belonging to the institution)

Edition

Cizí jazyky v akademickém a profesním vzdělávání, 2016

Other information

Language

English

Type of outcome

Prezentace na konferencích

Field of Study

60200 6.2 Languages and Literature

Country of publisher

Czech Republic

Confidentiality degree

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

RIV identification code

RIV/00216224:14640/16:00093357

Organization unit

Language Centre

Keywords (in Czech)

videokonference - zdvořilost

Keywords in English

videoconferencing - politeness
Změněno: 2/2/2017 15:23, Mgr. Alena Hradilová, Ph.D.

Abstract

V originále

This presentation deals with a case study of a videoconference (VC) course held jointly between law students from Masaryk University, Czech Republic and law students from the University of Helsinki, Finland. A corpus of video recordings of VC sessions was collected over a period of four semesters in order to analyse situations where non-observance of Grice’s Cooperative Principle and/or Leech’s Politeness Maxims interferes with or completely disables the flow of communication between students. The aim is to explain why attention to certain pragmatic issues in teaching English via videoconferencing has been identified as important. Results of this case study are applied to teaching methodology and implemented into the course structure. The presentation offers examples of students’ behaviour and offers materials that deal with teaching politeness principles to students of law.