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Date Posted: 09:09:56 09/23/07 Sun
Author: Lourdes
Subject: Re: Teaching Impoliteness
In reply to: Kátia 's message, "Teaching Impoliteness" on 07:08:07 09/21/07 Fri


It is very interesting katia, first I was thing just about politeness.


Lourdes








>I believe, and I guess that's what the authors meant,
>we should be eclectic in our teaching. We have to
>provide tools for our learners to behave
>linguistically according to the situation and to their
>communicative intent. So, there are times we want and
>need to be more assertive, more aggressive and even
>impolite. Learning about the linguistic forms which
>are used to express anger, for instance, can be very
>useful and will certainly enable the FLL to express
>themselves if they find themselves in a situation
>which requires that kind of reaction. We teach the
>norms and the language repertoire. It's up to them to
>choose the way they want to sound.

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