Identify the Forms of Pragmatic Politeness and Impoliteness

Politeness is able to show a person’s feelings towards others and awareness of a social custom. There are many purposes of politeness including: creating a public self image, creating solidarity, threatening people to send a negative message, not threatening people or upsetting them, indicating social relationship, showing awareness of social context, and power dynamics. The value of polite speech in a culture has the purpose of creating solidarity. Polite speech in a specific culture is very important and should be practiced as much as possible.

“Today you will be trying to stop the Titanic from sinking. The engine has been flooded with water, so you have to activate the backup engine to keep the ship afloat until a rescue ship can come. Have fun in the rooms!” finished the monotone voice after explaining the instructions.

Identify Patterns: What commonalities of the speaker’s odd behavior do you notice? What is he behaving like?

The crew consisted of the injured captain, a cook, Billie the oiler and Crane the correspondent. Sadly not all the crewmembers survive these excruciating hours in the sea with no food, warmth, and only a jug of water. It was shocking to hear that Billie does not make it ashore, especially after working so hard to get them there. Billie would take turns with the correspondent rowing the boat with very little sleep “They sat together in the same seat, and each rowed an oar. Then the oiler

and failure to order abandon ship in a timely manner. The men went through such a horrific

survivor as the ship would sink slower. Men died for the reason that people were careless. They

Conversation is a ritual every person must encounter throughout their lives in order to function properly with one another in today’s society. However, every individual has a “different idea about what’s appropriate” when approaching someone in any sort of conversation; that is why we are referred to as individuals (Tannen 327). There are thousands of diverse languages to speak to one another with, in fact that means there are thousands of different ways to offend each other with our words. Within those languages there are several contrasting gestures that can offend any single person, such as the amount of times individuals apologize in one meeting, giving criticism too harshly, or thanking someone so often it does not seem genuine. In the article “What Do You Mean,” Deborah Tannen touches upon apologies, criticism, and thank yous in further detail to explain where individuals go wrong within conversation and how they can fix their actions. Individuals find it satisfying to please others by being polite because it is the ‘right’ thing to do, however like myself others need to stand up for themselves and get directly to the point now in order to avoid conflict later in life.

The video is set at a formal dinner party with 6 actants sitting around a table interacting with meaningless small talk, until one of the actants (Jon Snow) begins to speak of personal interactions and foreign landscapes. The immediate reaction forms the other five actants is overwhelmingly negative as they look in confusion towards Jon’s inability to participate in socially accepted small talk. Jon’s comments are ignored as the topic switches back to preferred small talk among the five actants. As the diner progresses, and Jon continually

From his pilot seat , Lt. Donald Kilpatrick, turned and asked the navigator if the plane was on fire. Once he received the response to his question, Lt. Kilpatrick gave his last order to the crew…“Bail Out”.

Washington, George. Rules of Civility and Decent Behavior in Company and Conversation. Miami, FL: BN Pub., 2007.

We left at 8am. The wind is strong and chilly. The rudder of the Pinta slipped of the socket. The sea prevented any of us from helping. We are going to leave the pinta at the Grand Canary and keep going with Columbus. Columbus told Martin Pinzon, the captain of the Pinta, to stay behind and repair it.

No one slept for three days, everyone on board assisting in keeping the boat upright. By September 11, George Ashby told the captain the obvious fact that we were taking on water. Many more labourers were sent down to fuel the boat as we tried to regain control but it did little to help. Water was slowly rising and all non-fuel workers were told to start bucketing out water. The cold sea continued to engulf our previously sturdy ship.

That night on the Indianapolis the ship was hit with a torpedo which cause them to sink.Once there were hit Captain McVay tried his best to find a way to send a message for help, but there was no way of knowing the message have been received.Once they sent out the SOS message they abandon ship.Some people did not make it off the ship in time, but most of them did.Once the ship sank the survivors was going through many complications.Some were

Although he knew nothing about the San Dominick he still decided to climb onboard the ship to see why they were sailing in such a poor manner. After he went onboard the ship he saw the hungry and thirsty blacks and Spanish, so he decided to help them. “He bade his men return to the sealer, and fetch back as much water as the whale-boat could carry, with whatever soft bread the steward might have, all the remaining pumpkins on board, with a box of sugar, and a dozen of his private bottles of cider.” This benevolent act reveals to the reader the pure goodness of Captain Delano.

“I have never had an authority figure describe me as a disrespectful person, so I am trying to understand where in our conversation did you believe I crossed the line of being disrespectful?”