Discursive Approaches to Politeness

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Discursive Approaches to Politeness

Edited by: Linguistic Politeness Research Group

Language: English

Published/Copyright: 2011

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Volume 8 | Mouton Series in Pragmatics [MSP]

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This collection of essays by the Linguistic Politeness Research Group represents the results of over a decade of the group's research, discussions, seminars and conferences on the subject of linguistic politeness. The volume brings together cutting edge essays reflecting the range of discursive approaches to the analysis of politeness and impoliteness.

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

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eBook published on:

June 30, 2011

eBook ISBN:

9783110238679

Hardcover published on:

June 16, 2011

Hardcover ISBN:

9783110238662

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Front matter:

12

Main content:

272

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110238679

eBook ISBN: 9783110238679

Hardcover ISBN: 9783110238662

Keywords for this book

Discourse; Pragmatics; Politeness

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