The Palgrave handbook of linguistic (im)politeness
This handbook comprehensively examines social interaction by providing a critical overview of the field of linguistic politeness and impoliteness.Authored by over forty leading scholars, it offers a diverse and multidisciplinary approach to a vast array of themes that are vital to the study of inter...
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Palgrave Macmillan
2017
Palgrave Macmillan UK |
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| ISBN: | 1137375078, 9781137375070 |
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Table of Contents:
- 4.2 Case Study 2: Relational Ties and Relational Entitlements -- 4.3 Summary -- 5 Conclusion and Future Directions -- References -- 12: (Im)politeness and Emotion -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The Fundamental Links Between Emotion and Interpersonal Pragmatics -- 3 Emotions and (Im)politeness in (Im)politeness Research -- 4 The Links of Emotions to Cognition, Sociality and Communicative Observables -- 4.1 Emotions and Cognition -- 4.2 Emotions and Sociality -- 4.3 Communicative Observables of Emotions -- 5 Sketching Paths for Empirical Analysis -- 6 Conclusions and Outlook -- References -- 13: (Im)politeness and Mixed Messages -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Some Background on Irony, Ritualised Banter and Teasing -- 2.1 Irony and Conversational Implicature -- 2.2 Irony and the Echoic Account -- 2.3 Ritualised Banter -- 2.4 Teasing -- 3 Mixed Messages and (Im)politeness -- 3.1 Mixed Messages in Classic Politeness Theories -- 3.2 The Metapragmatics of Mixed Messages -- 3.3 The Mix of Mixed Messages -- Convention-driven -- Context-Driven -- 3.4 The Conventionalisation of Mixed Messages -- 3.5 The Functions of Mixed Messages -- 3.6 The Perception of Mixed Messages -- 4 Case Study: Frontstage and Backstage Evaluations of Teasing -- 5 Summary and Future Directions -- References -- 14: (Im)politeness: Prosody and Gesture -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Key Concepts and Theories -- 2.1 Prosody -- 2.2 The Frequency Code -- 2.3 Gesture -- 3 Critical Overview of Research -- 3.1 What Role Does Prosody Play in the Communication of (Im)politeness? -- 3.2 Can the Frequency Code Work Across Different Cultures, and Different Modes of (Im)politeness? -- 3.3 What Role Does Gesture Play in the Communication of (Im)politeness, and How Do Gesture and Prosody Interact? -- 4 Case Studies -- 4.1 Production Data: Korean -- 4.2 Perception Data: Catalan
- 5 Summary and Future Directions -- References -- 15: Experimental Approaches to Linguistic (Im)politeness -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Key Concepts and Methods -- 3 Critical Review of Relevant Empirical Research -- 3.1 Initial Tests of Brown and Levinson's Politeness Theory -- Ordering of Superstrategies -- Imposition, Power and Distance -- 3.2 Experimental Extensions of Brown and Levinson's Politeness Theory -- Person Perception -- Powerful vs. Powerless Language -- Processing Politeness: Memory and Comprehension -- Tests of Politeness and Reasoning -- 4 Case Studies -- 4.1 Experiments on Discourse Markers -- 4.2 Politeness and Parkinson's Disease -- 5 Summary and Future Directions -- References -- 16: (Im)politeness and Developments in Methodology -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Key Concepts: Methods and Methodologies -- 3 Critical Overview of Data Collection Methods -- 3.1 Armchair Approaches -- 3.2 Laboratory Approaches -- 3.3 Field Approaches -- Diary Studies -- Interactional Approaches -- Philological Approaches -- Corpus-based Studies -- The Semantics and Meta-discourse of (Im)politenes -- 4 Case Study: 30 Years of Politeness Research -- 5 Summary and Future Directions -- References -- Part III: (Im)politeness and Variation -- 17: Historical (Im)politeness -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Key Concepts: Comparability, Historicity and Data -- 3 Critical Overview of Research -- 3.1 Discourse Strategies -- 3.2 Terms of Address -- 3.3 Speech Acts -- 3.4 Interjections and Expletives -- 3.5 Negotiation of Politeness and (Im)politeness -- 4 Case Studies -- 4.1 Semantics and Types of (Im)politeness in the History of English -- 4.2 Impoliteness in Verbal Duels: A Discursive Approach to 'The Flyting of Dunbar and Kennedy' -- 5 Summary and Future Directions -- References -- 18: (Im)politeness: Language Socialization -- 1 Introduction
- 5.3 Sample Analysis -- 5.4 Findings -- 6 Summary/Conclusions -- References -- 8: Convention and Ritual (Im)politeness -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Key Concepts and Theories -- 2.1 Convention -- 2.2 Ritual -- 3 Critical Overview of Research -- 3.1 Conventionality and (Im)politeness -- 3.2 Ritual -- Interactional Situatedness -- Politeness and Ritual -- 4 Case Studies -- 4.1 From Urban Streetball to Academia and Beyond: The Emergence of an Interactional Convention -- 5 Summary and Future Directions -- References -- Part II: Developments -- 9: Impoliteness -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Concepts and Other Distinctive Features of Impoliteness Frameworks -- 2.1 Impoliteness Meta-language -- 2.2 Intention -- 2.3 Emotions -- 3 Overview of Research -- 3.1 A Brief History of Impoliteness Research -- 3.2 From Strategies to Formulae -- 3.3 Co-texts and Contexts -- 3.4 Co-texts -- 3.5 Contexts -- 4 Case Study: 'Lose some Weight Baby Girl' -- 4.1 Context -- 4.2 Power -- McHenry's Power -- The Worker's Power -- The Audience's Power -- 4.3 Impoliteness Formulae -- 5 Future Directions -- References -- 10: (Im)politeness and Identity -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Face and Identity in (Im)politeness Research -- 2.1 Face and Identity -- 2.2 Dialectics: The Understanding of Discursive Identity -- 2.3 Face and Identity Revisited -- 3 Identity and (Im)politeness -- 4 Case Study: Golden Dawn: Solidarity/Deference and Aggression as Indexes of Identity Construction -- 4.1 Data and Background -- 4.2 Procedure and Framework -- 4.3 Analysis -- 5 Conclusion -- Appendix -- Transcription Conventions -- References -- 11: (Im)politeness and Relationality -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Key Concept and Theories -- 3 Critical Overview of Research -- 4 Case Studies -- 4.1 Case Study 1: Balancing Obligations
- Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- 1: Introduction -- 1 (Im)politeness -- 2 Why This Handbook Now? -- 3 What is in it? -- 4 Looking Forward -- References -- Part I: Foundations -- 2: Pragmatic Approaches (Im)politeness -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Classic Pragmatic Theories and Concepts -- 2.1 Speech Act Theory -- 2.2 Conversational Implicature -- 3 Pragmatic Concepts in Politeness Theories -- 3.1 Face Threatening Acts -- 3.2 Politeness Principles and Maxims -- 3.3 Politeness Strategies -- 3.4 Politeness Implicatures -- 3.5 (In)directness -- 3.6 Context and Contextual Variables -- 4 A Case Study -- 5 Summary and Future Directions -- References -- 3: Sociocultural Approaches to (Im)politeness -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Key Concepts and Theories -- 2.1 Sociocultural Linguistics -- 2.2 Individualistic Views of Politeness -- 2.3 Traditional Approaches to Variables -- 3 Critical Overview of Research -- 3.1 Discursive Approaches to the Analysis of Politeness -- 3.2 Politeness as Social -- 3.3 Politeness as a System and a Resource -- 3.4 Linguistic Ideologies, Indirect Indexicality and Politeness -- 4 Case Studies -- 4.1 Conventional Politeness -- 4.2 Conventional Etiquette -- 4.3 Assertion of Control of Children by Adults (Hegemony) -- 4.4 Assertion That Children's Needs Are Less Important Than Adults' Needs -- 4.5 Assertion That Children Should Not Express Themselves -- 4.6 Below-the-lines Comments -- 5 Summary and Future Directions -- Bibliography -- 4: Ideology and (Im)politeness -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Ideology -- 3 Ideologies of (Im)politeness -- 3.1 Introduction: (Im)politeness -- 3.2 Ideologies of (Im)politeness 1 -- Class -- Gender -- 'Race'/Ethnicity -- Age -- 3.3 Ideologies of (Im)politeness 2 -- The Ideology of Rationalisation
- 2 Key Concepts and Theories
- The Ideology of Homogenisation -- The Ideologies of 'Encoded (Im)politeness' and 'Inferred (Im)politeness' -- 4 Case Study -- 5 Conclusion -- References -- 5: Face and (Im)politeness -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Key Concepts and Theories -- 2.1 Face as the Explanation for Non-Gricean Behaviour -- 2.2 Face as Bestowed by Others and Emotionally Invested -- 2.3 Reciprocal Face-Maintenance -- 2.4 Face as Universal -- 2.5 A Person's Face: Temporal Perspective -- 2.6 A Person's Face: Contents -- 2.7 The Locus and Scope of Face -- 3 Critical Review of Research -- 3.1 Politeness, Face and Facework: A Tale of Amicable Separation -- 3.2 The Range of Face and Facework Study -- 3.3 The Locus and Scope of Face -- 3.4 The Contents of Face -- 4 Case Study -- 5 Summary and Future Directions -- References -- 6: Power, Solidarity and (Im)politeness -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Key Concepts and Theories -- 2.1 Power -- 2.2 Solidarity/Distance -- 3 Critical Overview of Research -- 3.1 Expressive (Im)politeness -- How Do People Make Assessments of P & -- D? -- How Do P and D Interconnect? -- How Do P & -- D Influence (Im)politeness Strategies? -- 3.2 Classificatory (Im)politeness -- 3.3 Interactional Achievement (Im)politeness -- 3.4 Researching P, D and (Im)politeness -- 4 Case Study -- 5 Summary and Future Directions -- References -- 7: Indexicality and (Im)politeness -- 1 Introducing Indexicality and (Im)politeness -- 2 Indexicality -- 2.1 Indexicality as the Study of Deixis -- 2.2 Schema of Interpretation -- 2.3 Indexicality as a Social Process -- 3 (Im)politeness -- 4 Researching (Im)politeness and Indexicality -- 4.1 The Social Significance of Indexicality in Linguistic (Im)politeness -- 4.2 Direct Marking of (Im)politeness Versus Marking of Stances, Activities, Identities -- 5 Case Study -- 5.1 Aims -- 5.2 Method