[PDF] Discursive Approaches To Politeness eBook

Author : Linguistic Politeness Research Group
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 20,47 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 3110238667

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Author : Linguistic Politeness Research Group
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 39,60 MB
Release : 2011-06-30
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 3110238675

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This collection of essays by the Linguistic Politeness Research Group represents the results of over a decade of the group's research, discussions, seminars and conferences on the subject of linguistic politeness. The volume brings together cutting edge essays reflecting the range of discursive approaches to the analysis of politeness and impoliteness.

Author : Andreas Jucker
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 18,96 MB
Release : 2020-04-16
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1108499627

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From the Middle Ages up to the present day, this book traces politeness in the history of the English language.

Author : Dawn Archer
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 17,19 MB
Release : 2020-08-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027260850

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Much like in everyday life, politeness is key to the smooth running of relationships and interactions. Professional contexts, however, tend to be characterised by a plethora of behaviours that may be specific to that context. They include ‘polite’ behaviours, ‘impolite’ behaviours and behaviours that arguably fall somewhere between – or outside – such concepts. The twelve chapters making up this edited collection explore these behaviours in a range of communication contexts representative of business, medical, legal and security settings. Between them, the contributions will help readers to theorize about – and in some cases operationalize (im)politeness and related behaviours for – these real-world settings. The authors take a broad, yet theoretically underpinned, definition of politeness and use it to help explain, analyse and inform professional interactions. They demonstrate the importance of understanding how interactions are negotiated and managed in professional settings. The edited collection has something to offer, therefore, to academics, professionals and practitioners alike.

Author : Derek Bousfield
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 27,67 MB
Release : 2008-09-25
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 3110208342

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The volume addresses the enormous imbalance that exists between academic interest in politeness phenomena when compared to impoliteness phenomena. Researchers working with Brown and Levinson's ([1978] 1987) seminal work on politeness rarely focused explicitly on impoliteness. As a result, only one aspect of facework/relational work has been studied in detail. Next to this research desideratum, politeness research is on the move again, with alternative conceptions of politeness to those of Brown and Levinson being further developed. In this volume researchers present, discuss and explore the concept of linguistic impoliteness, the crucial differences and interconnectedness between lay understandings of impoliteness and the academic concept within a theory of facework/relational work, as well as the exercise of power that is involved when impoliteness occurs. The authors offer solid discussions of the theoretical issues involved and draw on data from political interaction, interaction with legally constituted authorities, workplace interaction in the factory and the office, code-switching and Internet practices. The collection offers inspiration for research on impoliteness in many different research fields, such as (critical) discourse analysis, conversation analysis, pragmatics and stylistics, as well as linguistic approaches to studies in conflict and conflict resolution.

Author : Richard J. Watts
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 453 pages
File Size : 13,13 MB
Release : 2008-08-22
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 3110199815

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The second edition of this collection of 13 original papers contains an updated introductory section detailing the significance that the original articles published in 1992 have for the further development of research into linguistic politeness into the 21st century. The original articles focus on the phenomenon of politeness in language. They present the most important problems in developing a theory of linguistic politeness, which must deal with the crucial differences between lay notions of politeness in different cultures and the term 'politeness' as a concept within a theory of linguistic politeness. The universal validity of the term itself is called into question, as are models such as those developed by Brown and Levinson, Lakoff, and Leech. New approaches are suggested. In addition to this theoretical discussion, an empirical section presents a number of case studies and research projects in linguistic politeness. These show what has been achieved within current models and what still remains to be done, in particular with reference to cross-cultural studies in politeness and differences between a Western and a non-Western approach to the subject. The publication of this second edition demonstrates that the significance of the collection is just as salient in the first decade of the new millennium as it was at the beginning of the 1990s.

Author : Dániel Z. Kádár
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 44,38 MB
Release : 2013-08-29
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1107292514

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Politeness is key to all of our relationships and plays a fundamental part in the way we communicate with each other and the way we define ourselves. It is not limited only to conventional aspects of linguistic etiquette, but encompasses all types of interpersonal behaviour through which we explore and maintain our relationships. This groundbreaking exploration navigates the reader through this fascinating area and introduces them to a variety of new insights. The book is divided into three parts and is based on an innovative framework which relies on the concepts of social practice, time and space. In this multidisciplinary approach, the authors capture a range of user and observer understandings and provide a variety of examples from different languages and cultures. With its reader-friendly style, carefully constructed exercises and useful glossary, Understanding Politeness will be welcomed by both researchers and postgraduate students working on politeness, pragmatics and sociolinguistics more broadly.

Author : Sara Mills
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 41,15 MB
Release : 2017-10-19
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1108340768

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Politeness plays a vital role in maintaining class differences. In this highly original account, Sara Mills analyses the interrelationship between class and linguistic interaction, uncovering the linguistic ideologies behind politeness in British English. She sheds light on the way politeness and rudeness interrelate with the marking of class boundaries, and reveals how middle-class positions in society are marked by people's use of self-deprecation, indirectness and reserve. Systematically challenging received wisdom about cross-cultural and inter-cultural differences, she goes beyond the mere context of the interaction to investigate the social dimension of politeness. This approach enables readers to analyse other languages in the same way, and a range of case studies illustrate how ideologies of politeness are employed and judged.

Author : Maria Sifianou
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 39,69 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9780198241324

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Politeness is crucial to successful communication and is consequently of interest to those who study language in its social context. This work presents an application of Brown and Levinson's theoretical work in a full-length comparative case study.

Author : Richard J. Watts
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 43,36 MB
Release : 2003-09-25
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 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.