TY - JOUR ID - 17801 TI - Intercultural Politeness and Impoliteness: A Case of Iranian Students with Malaysian Professors JO - Journal of Research in Applied Linguistics JA - RALS LA - en SN - 2345-3303 AU - Izadi, Ahmad AD - University of Bayreuth, Germany Y1 - 2022 PY - 2022 VL - 13 IS - 2 SP - 33 EP - 43 KW - Intercultural Communication KW - (Im)politeness KW - Ethnography KW - Supervisor-Supervisee Relationship DO - 10.22055/rals.2022.17801 N2 - Evaluations of polite, impolite and over-polite linguistic and nonlinguistic behaviors depend largely on the socio-cultural attributes of a society and the individuals’ schemata, which are rooted in the communicators’ previous experiences. In intercultural settings, communication represents a complicated picture due to the participants’ different socio-cultural backgrounds and their unshared cultural schemata. Adopting the discursive approach to (im)politeness and employing ethnographic methods, this study identifies some significant sources of (im)politeness-related miscommunication between 10 Malaysian university lecturers/professors and 15 Iranian students. The findings suggest that different socio-cultural behaviors as well as some aspects of professional practices are the sources of misunderstanding and have potential for either impolite or over-polite judgments. Findings are discussed in light of the practical and theoretical implications for intercultural politeness and impoliteness. UR - https://rals.scu.ac.ir/article_17801.html L1 - https://rals.scu.ac.ir/article_17801_27d8461f945cbbe85ea8d857ac15d03a.pdf ER -