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Politeness /

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.

Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Watts, Richard J.
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2003.
Collection:Key topics in sociolinguistics.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Introducing linguistic politeness
  • Politeness through time and across cultures
  • Modelling linguistic politeness (I)
  • Modelling linguistic politeness (II): Brown and Levinson and their critics
  • Facework and linguistic politeness
  • A social model of politeness
  • Structures of linguistic politeness
  • Relevance theory and concepts of power
  • Politic behaviour and politeness in discourse
  • Politic behaviour and politeness within a theory of social practice.