Abstract Discursive approaches to analyzing politeness often eschew Brown and Levinson’s theory of politeness as being too dependent on speech act theory and Gricean pragmatics. However, in this analysis of a courtroom interaction I will show how some of the concepts from Brown and Levinson’s theory, such as face-threatening behaviour and positive and negative politeness, can provide us with a vocabulary with which to talk about dynamic situated interaction. These are combined with reference to the norms of behaviour in the context of situation, as well as an appreciation of how meaning is defined as negotiated by participants as they interact. In the interaction under question here I show how the meaning of these utterances can be observed in the data themselves by looking at the sequence and take-up of turns at talk and by commenting on the relationship between the form of the utterances and the context in which they are uttered. In this way, some of the most useful concepts from Brown and Levinson are applied to the data from a constructivist perspective.

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“我们现在不在俱乐部中”：一种用于分析法庭数据的新布朗和莱文森方法

摘要话语分析礼貌性方法常常避免布朗和莱文森的礼貌性理论过于依赖言语行为理论和格里肯实用主义。但是，在对法庭互动的分析中，我将展示布朗和莱文森理论中的某些概念，例如威胁人的行为以及积极和消极的礼貌，如何为我们提供词汇，以讨论动态的情境互动。这些结合了在情境中的行为规范，以及对参与者交互时如何定义含义的理解。在这里所讨论的互动中，我展示了如何通过观察说话时轮流的顺序和顺序，以及评论话语的形式与语境之间的关系，来在数据本身中观察这些话语的含义。他们说出来。这样，从建构主义的角度出发，将Brown和Levinson提出的一些最有用的概念应用于数据。