Isabelbickford

Cultural differences

Hi Isabel, in the Cultural difference section under Shortcomings of politeness theory, I find it useful to link "Japanese honorific system" with the wikipedia page: Honorific speech in Japanese (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honorific_speech_in_Japanese). Moreover, I notice that it is very common for people to find a language phonetically or culturally more politely-sounding that another, which is however not captured by the politeness theory. I am not sure if this is of interest to your group, but this Cultural difference section can definitely be expanded by exploring it. For example, Japanese is considered a very "polite" language not only of its honorific system. You may find the following page relevant: http://kimallen.sheepdogdesign.net/Japanese/polite.html http://www.sljfaq.org/afaq/honorifics.html

Also, when I was editing my group's page (Lavender Linguistics), I received this message from a spectator, and you may find it useful as well: "Welcome to Wikipedia! I see that you're doing a lot of hard work on Lavender linguistics. I do ask you to look not only at the way the other section headings in the article are capitalized, but Wikipedia's manual of style regarding this issue, MOS:SECTIONCAPS. We do section headings in Sentence case, not Title Case: "Multiplicity of Social Identity", for example, should be "Multiplicity of social identity". There is a lot to get used to here; I just wanted to help you out regarding this nitpicky issue. Again, if you look at a lot of other Wikipedia articles you'll see that this is the norm even though it might not be consistent with what you've ever done in an academic setting. Style manuals are like that.... Take care!"

Overall very good job! Chanalexccha (talk) 01:15, 24 June 2016 (UTC)

One more thing Isabel, I remember I read about this: the politeness theory does not account for impoliteness. Refer to Making Nice in Eckert's Language and Gender (I forgot which page) Is this something that can be added to your section? Chanalexccha (talk) 01:20, 24 June 2016 (UTC)