Chapter 2 “It’s not what you said, it’s how you said it!” Prosody and impoliteness

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Acknowledgements V
3. Contents VII
4. Contributors IX
5. Introduction: The Linguistic Politeness Research Group 1
6. Chapter 1 Discursive approaches to politeness and impoliteness 19
7. Chapter 2 “It’s not what you said, it’s how you said it!” Prosody and impoliteness 57
8. Chapter 3 The limits of politeness re-visited: Courtroom discourse as a case in point 85
9. Chapter 4 “No, like proper north”: Re-drawing boundaries in an emergent community of practice 109
10. Chapter 5 Frontstage and backstage: Gordon Brown, the “bigoted woman” and im/politeness in the 2010 UK General Election 133
11. Chapter 6 ‘First order’ and ‘second order’ politeness: Institutional and intercultural contexts 167
12. Chapter 7 Discursive histories, personalist ideology and judging intent: Analysing the metalinguistic discussion of Tony Blair’s ‘slave trade apology’ 189
13. Chapter 8 ‘Doing aphasia – Are you with me?’: Analysing face-work around issues of (non-)competence 221
14. Postscript 245
15. Index 263