ANÁLISIS DE LA EXPRESIÓN DE LA CORTESÍA EN RTVE: INTERNACIONAL PARA LA ENSEÑANZA DEL ESPAÑOL-LENGUA EXTRANJERA

Abstract

The politeness principle as sociocultural content in the teaching of foreign languages has been the topic of many current research works, because the ignorance of its elements and rules can generate a culture shock between a trainee of a foreign language and a native speaker. This paper approaches the descriptive study of this phenomenon through five RTVE series broadcasted on the Internet in order to provide a valuable resource for the teaching of Spanish as a foreign language. We analyze qualitatively the expression of politeness through different linguistic, paralinguistic, kinesic, proxemic and chronemic elements of speech acts in the selected sample, and quantitatively the presence of these elements in the serials. We conclude on the need of pragmatic works similar to this type in order to provide Spanish foreign language students with different strategies from those in their mother tongue that allow them to fit a particular communicative situation.