Situated Politeness

by Davies, Bethan L.; Haugh, Michael; Merrison, Andrew John

• ISBN13: 9781441159496
• ISBN10: 1441159495
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2011-07-21
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic

Summary

Pragmatic and sociolinguistic analyses of im/politeness have usually been dependent on context and cultural frames of reference. This new study approaches the concept from an original perspective, namely situatedness. Although politeness research often concentrates on examining how speeches or discourses themselves are situated with regards to different places and contexts, the focus on just one situation, and various text types within it, can also be of value. Situated Politeness is concerned with disentangling the factors which govern our behaviour within a given social context as well as across them. A range of expanding disciplines, including corpus linguistics, are brought to bear on the topic, and this work will be of interest to a diverse global audience.

Author Biography

Bethan L. Davies is a Lecturer on Linguistics and Phonetics at the University of Leeds, UK. Michael Haugh is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Languages and Linguistics at Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia. Andrew John Merrison is a Lecturer in the English Language and Linguistics Department at York St. John University, UK.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	p. vii
Notes on Contributors	p. viii
Situating Politeness	p. 1
Politeness in Institutional Settings
Relativity Rules: Politic Talk in Ethnicized Workplaces	p. 27
That's not very polite! Discursive Struggle and Situated Politeness in the Mexican English-language Classroom	p. 53
Communities of Practice and Politeness	p. 73
Relational Work in a Sporting Community of Practice	p. 88
Politeness in Interpersonal Settings
Situated Functions of Addressee Honorifics in Japanese Television Drama	p. 111
Do you want to do it yourself like? Hedging in Irish Traveller and Setded Family Discourse	p. 129
Unpacking the Hearer's Interpretation of Situated Politeness	p. 147
Humour, Face and Im/politeness in Getting Acquainted	p. 165
Politeness in Public Settings
Situated Impoliteness: The Interface between Relational Work and Identity Construction	p. 187
Negative Politeness Forms and Impoliteness Functions in Institutional Discourse: A Corpus-assisted Approach	p. 209
National Face and National Face Threatening Acts: Politeness and the European Constitution	p. 232
Tourist Advertising of Australia: Impolite or Situation-appropriate? Or a Uniquely Aussie Invite Lost in Translation	p. 253
Epilogue	p. 270
Author Index	p. 279
Subject Index	p. 284
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