Broadening the Horizon of Linguistic Politeness
Broadening the Horizon of Linguistic Politeness

Author: Robin T. Lakoff

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing

Published: 2005-10-27

Total Pages: 358

ISBN-13: 9027294119

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This collection of 19 papers celebrates the coming of age of the field of politeness studies, now in its 30th year. It begins with an investigation of the meaning of politeness, especially linguistic politeness, and presents a short history of the field of linguistic politeness studies, showing how such studies go beyond the boundaries of conventional linguistic work, incorporating, as they do, non-language insights. The emphasis of the volume is on non-Western languages and the ways linguistic politeness is achieved with them. Many, if not most, studies have focused on Western languages, but the languages highlighted here show new and different aspects of the phenomena.The purpose of linguistic politeness is to aid in successful communication throughout the world, and this volume offers a balance of geographical distribution not found elsewhere, including Japanese, Thai, and Chinese, as well as Greek, Swedish and Spanish. It covers such theoretical topics as face, wakimae, social levels, gender-related differences in language usage, directness and indirectness, and intercultural perspectives.

Politeness
Politeness

Author: Penelope Brown

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1987-02-27

Total Pages: 364

ISBN-13: 9780521313551

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This book studies the principles for constructing polite speeches, based on the detailed study of three unrelated languages and cultures.

Discourse and Politeness
Discourse and Politeness

Author: Naomi Geyer

Publisher: A&C Black

Published: 2008-01-06

Total Pages: 226

ISBN-13: 1441150730

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Discourse and Politeness examines Japanese institutional discourse and attempts to clarify the relationship between politeness, facework and speaker identity. The book seeks to establish an empirically grounded analysis of facework as the basis for evaluating politeness, and describes facework in delicate situations such as disagreement, teasing and talking about troubles, which have rarely been discussed in politeness studies. Insightful and cutting-edge, this research monograph will be of interest to researchers in discourse analysis, sociolinguistics and Japanese language.

Discursive Approaches to Politeness
Discursive Approaches to Politeness

Author: Linguistic Politeness Research Group

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 285

ISBN-13: 3110238667

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Mouton Series in Pragmatics (MSP) is a timely response to the growing demand for innovative and authoritative monographs and edited volumes from all angles of pragmatics. Recent theoretical work on the semantics/pragmatics interface, applications of evolutionary biology to the study of language, and empirical work within cognitive and developmental psychology and intercultural communication has directed attention to issues that warrant reexamination, as well as revision of some of the central tenets and claims of the field of pragmatics. The series welcomes proposals that reflect this endeavour and exploration within the discipline and neighboring fields such as language philosophy, communication, information science, sociolinguistics, second language acquisition and cognitive science. MSP will provide a forum for authors who represent different subfields of pragmatics including the linguistic, cognitive, social, and intercultural paradigms, and have important and intriguing ideas and research findings to share with scholars who are interested in linguistics in general and pragmatics in particular.

From Speech Acts to Lay Understandings of Politeness
From Speech Acts to Lay Understandings of Politeness

Author: Eva Ogiermann

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2019-07-04

Total Pages: 347

ISBN-13: 1107198054

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Illustrates the latest trends in politeness research from a multilingual and multicultural perspective, through the application of diverse methodologies.

Speech Acts and Politeness Across Languages and Cultures
Speech Acts and Politeness Across Languages and Cultures

Author: Leyre Ruiz de Zarobe

Publisher: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9783034306119

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Speech Acts and Politeness are among the main areas of interest in pragmatics. These communicative phenomena can be considered universal and at the same time language and culture-specific. It is this latter dimension that has been at the centre of recent developments in pragmatics, and it is also the focus of this book. The aim of this book is to reflect this development, providing evidence from four main areas crucial to pragmatics across languages and cultures: a description of a variety of speech acts and politeness strategies in different languages and cultures, a cross-cultural comparison of several speech acts and patterns of politeness, an in-depth analysis of issues concerning the learning and teaching of speech acts and politeness in second/foreign languages, as well as some methodological resources in pragmatics. This book is intended for researchers, scholars and students interested in the field of pragmatics, in general, or in the fields of cross-cultural and second/foreign language pragmatics, and specifically for those interested in speech acts and politeness. It will also be useful to any scholar interested in how communication and culture are related.

Impoliteness
Impoliteness

Author: Jonathan Culpeper

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2011-01-06

Total Pages: 307

ISBN-13: 1139495089

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When is language considered 'impolite'? Is impolite language only used for anti-social purposes? Can impolite language be creative? What is the difference between 'impoliteness' and 'rudeness'? Grounded in naturally-occurring language data and drawing on findings from linguistic pragmatics and social psychology, Jonathan Culpeper provides a fascinating account of how impolite behaviour works. He examines not only its forms and functions but also people's understandings of it in both public and private contexts. He reveals, for example, the emotional consequences of impoliteness, how it shapes and is shaped by contexts, and how it is sometimes institutionalised. This book offers penetrating insights into a hitherto neglected and poorly understood phenomenon. It will be welcomed by students and researchers in linguistics and social psychology in particular.

Power and Politeness in Action
Power and Politeness in Action

Author: Miriam A. Locher

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 386

ISBN-13: 9783110180077

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This study investigates the interface of power and politeness in the realization of disagreements in naturalistic language data. Power and politeness are important phenomena in face-to-face interaction. Disagreement is an arena in which these two key concepts are likely to be observed together: both disagreement and the exercise of power entail a conflict, and, at the same time, conflict will often be softened by the display of politeness (defined as marked relational work). The concept of power is of special interest to the field of linguistics in that language is one of the primary means to exercise power. Often correlated with status and regarded as an influential aspect of situated speech, the workings of the exercise of power, however, have rarely been formally articulated. This study provides a theoretical framework within which to analyze the observed instances of disagreement and their co-occurrence with the exercise of power and display of politeness. In this framework, a checklist of propositions that allow us to operationalize the concept of power and identify its exercise in naturalistic linguistic data is combined with a view of language as socially constructed. A qualitative approach is used to analyze the concepts of power and politeness. The material for analysis comes from three different contexts: (1) a sociable argument in an informal, supportive and interactive family setting, (2) a business meeting among colleagues within a research institution, and (3) examples from public discourse collected during the US Election 2000.

Politeness
Politeness

Author: Richard J. Watts

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2003-09-25

Total Pages: 326

ISBN-13: 9780521794060

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During the last fifteen years, existing models of linguistic politeness have generated a huge amount of empirical research. Using a wide range of data from real-life speech situations, this new introduction to politeness breaks away from the limitations of current models and argues that the proper object of study in politeness theory must be commonsense notions of what politeness and impoliteness are. From this, Watts argues, a more appropriate model, one based on Bourdieu's concept of social practice, is developed.

Politeness in Chinese Face-to-Face Interaction
Politeness in Chinese Face-to-Face Interaction

Author: Yuling Pan

Publisher: Praeger

Published: 2000-05-09

Total Pages: 188

ISBN-13:

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This book attempts to bring in the perspective of situational variation in analyzing linguistic politeness, and looks at politeness in the larger framework of social context. It outlines the way into the problem of politeness in Chinese culture and the steps taken in the application of politeness strategies in verbal interaction.