From Speech Acts to Lay Understandings of Politeness
From Speech Acts to Lay Understandings of Politeness
Pilar Garcés-Conejos Blitvich, University of North Carolina, Charlotte
Taking an up-to-date and truly global approach, this volume presents a wide range of phenomena in politeness research, and discusses key developments in the field. Covering eight major world languages as well as several language varieties, a team of leading scholars provide a multilingual and multicultural perspective on various speech acts and emic conceptualisations of politeness, and a diachronic view of the field. Most significantly, the volume focuses on the latest trends in the field, such as metapragmatic approaches to im/politeness, politeness and globalization, politeness in computer mediated communication, and politeness and prosody, spanning a wide range of methodologies and types of data, including naturally occurring conversations, role plays, email messages, social media, online discussion forums, ethnographic interviews, focus groups, questionnaires, experiments and language corpora.
- Presents the latest trends and developments of politeness phenomena
- Methodologically diverse, politeness data is approached from both a qualitative and quantitative perspective
- Multilingual and multicultural data is provided from eight major world languages as well as several language varieties
Reviews & endorsements
‘… From Speech Acts to Lay Understandings of Politeness is a completely coherent volume that provides new insights into SA realization and the metapragmatics of face-threat and (im)politeness. Adopting a cross-cultural and cross-varietal perspective, it will appeal to politeness scholars, of course, but also to researchers interested in empirical and corpus-based pragmatics and willing to privilege data triangulation in their investigations.’ Nicolas Ruytenbeek, LINGUIST List
Product details
October 2021Paperback
9781316648032
346 pages
228 × 151 × 20 mm
0.51kg
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Table of Contents
- Im/politeness between the analyst and participant perspectives – an overview of the field Eva Ogiermann and Pilar Garcés-Conejos Blitvich
- Part I. Concepts and Cultural Norms Underlying Speech Acts:
- 1. Offers in Greek revisited Spyridoula Bella
- 2. Politeness, praising and identity construction in a Greek food blog Angeliki Tzanne
- 3. Online compliments of Iranian Facebook users Zohreh R. Eslami, Nasser Jabbari and Li-Jen Kuo
- 4. Qué Perfección: complimenting behaviour among Ecuadorian teenage girls on Instagram MarÃa Elena Placencia
- 5. Not all positive: on the landscape of thanking items in Cypriot Greek Spyros Armostis and Marina Terkourafi
- 6. Researching im/politeness in face-to-face interactions: on disagreements in Polish homes Eva Ogiermann
- Part II. Concepts and Cultural Norms Underlying Politeness:
- 7. Notions of politeness in Britain and America Jonathan Culpeper, Jim O'Driscoll and Claire Hardaker
- 8. The metapragmatics of consideration in (Australian and New Zealand) English Michael Haugh
- 9. A metapragmatic aspect of politeness: with a special emphasis on attentiveness in Japanese Saeko Fukushima
- 10. Discussions on Swiss and German politeness in online sources Miriam A. Locher and Martin Luginbühl
- 11. Globalisation and politeness – a Chinese perspective Daniel Kádár and Yongping Ran
- 12. Emic conceptualizations of face (Imagen) in Peninsular Spanish Pilar Garcés-Conejos Blitvich and Patricia Bou-Franch
- Epilogue: personal encounters with politeness research Peter Trudgill.
