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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, critical discourse analysis, and conversation analysis, are brought to bear on the topic, and this work will be of interest to a diverse global audience.

Politeness in Chinese is a well-researched concept in pragmatics; however, this pioneering book sheds an original new light on the subject. It provides a thorough diachronic investigation of Chinese politeness, and argues for universality in politeness theorizing. The author takes us on a journey through changes in Chinese politeness from Confucius to the present day, showing how these processes are reactions to the changing world, rather than to changes in the principles of politeness itself. He splits Chinese face into Face1 and Face2 - the former referring to the person and the latter to the persona of the speaker - and presents a model of Chinese politeness (MCP). He then proposes B&L-E (Brown and Levinson Extended) by incorporating the theoretical constructs of self-politeness and impoliteness. This title is part of the Flip it Open Programme and may also be available Open Access. Check our website Cambridge Core for details.

Rethinking Politeness with Henri Bergson offers the first English translation of a little-known essay by influential French philosopher Henri Bergson on the classifications of politeness acts. The translation is followed by a series of essays from scholars who critically engage with and build on Bergson's ideas, and recontextualize politeness as a key dimension of human sociability.

Intro -- Contents -- Figures -- Tables -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Introduction -- 1.1 Why this book? -- 1.2 Contents -- 1.3 Features -- Part I Theoretical framework -- 2 The roots of politeness research -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Concepts -- Universality -- Face and rationality -- Universality versus culture-specificity -- Speech acts and indirectness -- Forms and strategies -- 2.3 Methodology -- Utterance-level analysis -- Elicited data -- Observer coding -- 2.4 A sample analysis -- 2.5 Summary -- 2.6 Key readings -- 3 Recent developments in politeness research -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Concepts -- First-order versus second-order politeness -- Variability and contestedness -- Beyond culture as the unit of analysis -- Politeness as situated: contexts, text types and genres -- Face and relationships -- 3.3 Methodology -- Naturally occurring interactions -- Data types -- 3.4 A sample analysis -- 3.5 Summary -- 3.6 Key readings -- 4 Politeness as social practice -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Politeness and interpersonal evaluation -- 4.3 Politeness and social practice -- 4.4 Politeness and time -- 4.5 Politeness and social space -- 4.6 Summary -- 5 Understandings of politeness -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 Participant/metaparticipant understandings -- 5.3 Emic/etic understandings -- 5.4 Analyst/lay-observer understandings -- 5.5 Theoretical/folk-theoretic understandings -- 5.6 Summary -- Part II Politeness and time -- 6 Politeness in interaction -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 Key concepts -- Incrementality and sequentiality -- Accountability -- Footing -- Interactional multimodality -- 6.3 Key studies -- 6.4 Summary -- 6.5 Exercises -- 7 Politeness, convention and rituality -- 7.1 Introduction -- 7.2 Key concepts -- Conventions -- Rituals -- 7.3 Key studies -- 7.4 Summary -- 7.5 Exercises -- 8 Politeness and history -- 8.1 Introduction.

This collection of 19 papers celebrates the coming of age of the field of politeness studies, now in its 30th year. It begins with an investigation of the meaning of politeness, especially linguistic politeness, and presents a short history of the field of linguistic politeness studies, showing how such studies go beyond the boundaries of conventional linguistic work, incorporating, as they do, non-language insights. The emphasis of the volume is on non-Western languages and the ways linguistic politeness is achieved with them. Many, if not most, studies have focused on Western languages, but the languages highlighted here show new and different aspects of the phenomena.The purpose of linguistic politeness is to aid in successful communication throughout the world, and this volume offers a balance of geographical distribution not found elsewhere, including Japanese, Thai, and Chinese, as well as Greek, Swedish and Spanish. It covers such theoretical topics as face, wakimae, social levels, gender-related differences in language usage, directness and indirectness, and intercultural perspectives.

New Perspectives on (Im)Politeness and Interpersonal Communication gathers eleven studies by prominent scholars, which explore issues related to (im)politeness in human communication. The study of linguistic (im)politeness is undoubtedly one of the centra

This volume contains contributions that, based on authentic data from diverse African, Asian and European languages, literatures and cultures, shed a new light on politeness as a central phenomenon in pragmatics, and on what is at stake when teaching or learning the subject.

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 interpersonal communication. The chapters explore the use of (im)politeness in specific contexts as well as wider developments, and variations across cultures and contexts in understandings of key concepts (such as power, emotion, identity and ideology). Within each chapter, the authors select a topic and offer a critical commentary on the key linguistic concepts associated with it, supporting their assertions with case studies that enable the reader to consider the practicalities of (im)politeness studies. 0This volume will be of interest to students and scholars of linguistics, particularly those concerned with pragmatics, sociolinguistics and interpersonal communication. Its multidisciplinary nature means that it is also relevant to researchers across the social sciences and humanities, particularly those working in sociology, psychology and history

"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"--