ANALYZING THE PERCEPTIONS OF COLLEGE STUDENTS ON USE OF POLITENESS AGAINST TEACHERS’ STRATEGIC NEGATION IN COMMUNICATION: THE CASE OF MULTI- LINGUAL PRIVATE COLLEGE IN HYDERABAD, SINDH, PAKISTAN

Abstract

Study considers the natural phenomenon of cross-lingual and cultural impact on communication between the language instructors and their students at college level. Therefore, it tends to focus on students that employ politeness in answer to strategic negation shown by their instructors in classroom context. Based on methodology and approach to collect the data, the two phases in study helped to collect more data. The first phase used a sheet to complete discourse by teachers on specific requests. The teachers had to complete the discourse with declining requests of students. The study was framed on model of Beebe, Takahashi and Uliss-Weltz (1990). The assessment rated the responses of teachers and later investigated about politeness in students. Five language instructors of three languages, Urdu, English and Sindhi were taken. Results revealed that teachers irrespective to the language they teach, usually employ indirect techniques to refuse requests than direct. However, female instructors found for use of various refuse techniques compared to their male instructors. Similarly, the students in refer to politeness in refuse to requests, showed more polite and valuable concern to indirect techniques used for refusing the requests by teachers. Study is significant in teaching multi-lingual context. This can assist instructors to lessen their threatening face to refuse requests.