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Im/politeness research – what it says on the tin? (Not quite)

  • Barbara Pizziconi

    Barbara Pizziconi is a Reader in Japanese Applied Linguistics at SOAS, University of London. Her research interests revolve around socio-cultural / intercultural aspects of the language of social relations. While continuing to work on Japanese im/politeness, in her recent work she explores issues of intercultural mediation: 2023 Narratives of connecting – intercultural mediation during and after study abroad, with N. Iwasaki. In M. Derivry-Plard, A. J. Liddicoat, & ReN-AILA, R. N. (Eds.), La Médiation interculturelle en didactique des langues et des cultures / Intercultural mediation in teaching and learning languages and cultures (pp. 126–137). Editions des archives contemporaines. https://doi.org/10.17184/eac.9782813003904.

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Abstract

Several decades of analytical inquiry into linguistic im/politeness have produced a substantial body of research shedding light on its linguistic and social dimensions, but also distinct discursive conventions and terminology. This study turns the spotlight on im/politeness as the term of choice for researchers to think and talk about a rather broad range of social meanings and considers the pros and cons of this preferred denotation. I argue that while the term has undoubtedly scaffolded the development of a coherent field of enquiry, its continued use as a moniker, despite shifting concerns and broadening perspectives, may becloud our views too. The field’s trajectory of development is revisited by likening it to a process of register formation, in which the term im/politeness has accrued differential (and stereotypical) indexicalities for different groups, in a diverse, multicultural community of scholars with different research agendas. Our differential allegiances to a particular taxonomy arguably engender different ways of seeing, and the increasing complexity of the field demands that we continue to interrogate and justify the labels we use.


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Barbara Pizziconi

Barbara Pizziconi is a Reader in Japanese Applied Linguistics at SOAS, University of London. Her research interests revolve around socio-cultural / intercultural aspects of the language of social relations. While continuing to work on Japanese im/politeness, in her recent work she explores issues of intercultural mediation: 2023 Narratives of connecting – intercultural mediation during and after study abroad, with N. Iwasaki. In M. Derivry-Plard, A. J. Liddicoat, & ReN-AILA, R. N. (Eds.), La Médiation interculturelle en didactique des langues et des cultures / Intercultural mediation in teaching and learning languages and cultures (pp. 126–137). Editions des archives contemporaines. https://doi.org/10.17184/eac.9782813003904.

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