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" Mediating Conflicts, Creating Bonds "
Luca D’Anna
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AL
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1064351
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LA107980
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10.1163/24685631-12340002
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English
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Luca D’Anna
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Mediating Conflicts, Creating Bonds [Article]\ Luca D’Anna
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Leiden: Brill
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Annali Sezione Orientale
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2016
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76/1-2
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30–50
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The present paper discusses the patterns of interaction between the Islamic religion and the universal categories of verbal politeness described by Brown, Levinson (1987). The two scholars based their theory on the existence of two contrasting sets of ‘face-wants’ (negative and positive) and on the speakers’ necessity to preserve them while, at the same time, pursuing their goals. Verbal politeness provides means that enable the speaker to do so without endangering his social relations. While the phenomenon is, in itself, universal (i.e. found in all known cultures), its outer manifestations tend to be culturally bound. Amongst Maghrebi Arabic-speaking societies, the object of the present study, the ‘code’ of verbal politeness heavily draws on the Islamic religion. The present paper, thus, aims to analyse the interplay between Islam and the different strategies described by Brown and Levinson, by means of a wide exemplification that will highlight general trends and underlying structures.
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African Studies
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Arabic
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dialectology
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General
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Maghrebi dialects
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politeness
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sociolinguistics
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10.1163/24685631-12340002
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