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Aspects of polite behaviour in French and Syrian service encounters: A data-based comparative study

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This paper presents a data-based comparative study of polite behaviour in
French and Arabic (Syrian) service encounters. It focuses on the use of
conversational routines and rituals, which are not only an important com-
ponent of interactions in any service encounter, but also a prominent char-
acteristic of Arabic interaction. The first part of the paper is devoted to a
presentation of these two notions. The methodological problems raised by
contrastive data analysis are then discussed, especially that of choosing
comparable situations for conducting fieldwork, and of establishing a lin-
guistic grid of reference for the contrastive analysis. The results of the
study presented in part four lead to a discussion of what appear to be
specific features of polite behaviour in the French and Syrian corpora. The
corpora are composed of interactions audio-recorded in small shops.
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halshs-00357671 , version 1 (31-01-2009)

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Véronique Traverso. Aspects of polite behaviour in French and Syrian service encounters: A data-based comparative study. Journal of Politeness Research Language Behaviour Culture, 2006, 2 (1), pp.105-123. ⟨halshs-00357671⟩
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