Abstract The aim of this special issue of the Journal of Politeness Research is to show what happens when different analytical frameworks are be applied to a single piece of data: a short YouTube clip of a hearing in a USA courtroom. My specific aim in this paper is to show what an indexical analysis of (im)politeness phenomena, that is informed by a relevance-theoretic approach to communication, can bring to light about a short exchange between the judge and the defendant, that would not be evident to most viewers of this clip, and which also would not come to light through the application of the other methodologies demonstrated in this issue. Overall, I show that an analytical framework that takes a pragmatically informed indexical approach to (im)politeness phenomena, would predict and can explain variation between interpretations of an utterance as well as similarities in interpretation. It can therefore be used to address a problem that has always been present in (im)politeness analyses: how to identify and account for the social meanings generated by the use of a linguistic form in context.

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Adios的索引范围：性别和机构话语结构的相关理论分析及其对话语解释的影响

摘要本期《礼貌研究杂志》的目的是展示将​​不同的分析框架应用于单个数据时发生的情况：在美国法庭上聆听的简短YouTube剪辑。我在本文中的具体目的是表明，通过关联理论方法进行交流的（im）礼貌现象的索引分析可以揭示法官与被告之间的短暂交换，而不会此剪辑的大多数读者都可以理解，并且通过应用本期演示的其他方法也不会发现。总体而言，我展示了一个分析框架，该框架对（im）礼貌现象采用了务实的信息化索引方法，可以预测并可以解释话语解释之间的差异以及解释的相似性。因此，它可用于解决礼貌分析中始终存在的问题：如何识别和解释因使用上下文中的语言形式而产生的社会意义。