In search of another understanding of politeness: From the perspective of attentiveness
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Saeko Fukushima
Abstract
While politeness has been researched mainly from the perspectives of face and identity, this conceptual paper explores another understanding of politeness through the consideration of attentiveness, namely, a demonstrator’s pre-emptive responses to a recipient’s verbal or non-verbal cues or situations surrounding a recipient and a demonstrator, which takes the form of offering. In this paper, it is suggested that politeness can be construed in relation to the heart; and that behavioral (non-linguistic) politeness, an understudied area in the field, should be taken into account in politeness research. With the development of interpersonal pragmatics, there has been a growing need to investigate interpersonal relationships, and great importance is placed on evaluation in the discursive approach. As attentiveness is an interpersonal notion, which involves evaluation, the consideration of attentiveness meets these demands. In the present paper, the concept of attentiveness is clarified and it is shown how attentiveness works by presenting the process of demonstration and evaluation of attentiveness.
©2015 Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Berlin Boston
Artikel in diesem Heft
- Frontmatter
- Articles
- Journal of Politeness Research: Introduction
- A discursive approach to the analysis of politeness data
- Agency, accountability and evaluations of impoliteness
- (Im)politeness and (im)morality: Insights from intervention
- In search of another understanding of politeness: From the perspective of attentiveness
- Jocular mockery in computer-mediated communication: A contrastive study of a Spanish and English Facebook community
- The landscape of impoliteness research
- Epilogue. Politeness research: Sociolinguistics as applied pragmatics
Artikel in diesem Heft
- Frontmatter
- Articles
- Journal of Politeness Research: Introduction
- A discursive approach to the analysis of politeness data
- Agency, accountability and evaluations of impoliteness
- (Im)politeness and (im)morality: Insights from intervention
- In search of another understanding of politeness: From the perspective of attentiveness
- Jocular mockery in computer-mediated communication: A contrastive study of a Spanish and English Facebook community
- The landscape of impoliteness research
- Epilogue. Politeness research: Sociolinguistics as applied pragmatics
