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Metapragmatic Emotions In Pragmatics

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In her article, Spencer-Oatey (2011) states the increasing focus on “the relational” in pragmatics. There are various terms used when analyzing the interpersonal relations and thus she first tries to evaluate this terminology confusion in a critical way. Because she believes that although researchers may disagree whether we should focus on the words of participants or analysts, metapragmatic emotion and (im)politeness comments should be analyzed, she reports a workplace project partnership study.
One of her aims in the study is to address the lack of what is meant by “relational” since there are not many studies concerning the similarities and differences between the variations about “the relational”. Another point that was stated which needs to be addressed was who of “the relations”, whys of it, and the basis of relational sensitivity.
In her study, she collected the data through a series of interviews that she conducted …show more content…

The study basically aimed to shed light on these points using an analysis of metapragmatic emotion comments of people in an international project program to analyze and have a better understanding about interpersonal relations.
The study has a significant contribution to the pragmatic approaches in interpersonal relations in the workplace. Since we are living in a globalized world working on internationally based projects has been becoming more popular day by day and managing the interpersonal relations is a necessity in managing such teams with different people from different nations (Canney Davison and Ward, 1999), this study has provided valuable insights in collaboration of members in the partnership projects making use of pragmatic

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