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Japanese politeness revisited: from the perspective of attentiveness on Twitter Journal of Politeness Research (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2024-03-12 Saeko Fukushima
Previous research has shown that attentiveness (kikubari) is a significant aspect of politeness in Japanese. The aim of this paper is to expand on earlier research on attentiveness by using Twitter data and examine how Japanese lay people understand and/or evaluate attentiveness and how attentiveness manifests politeness. The data for this study were 600 Japanese tweets which contain attentiveness
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The Italian Bella Figura – a challenge for politeness theories Journal of Politeness Research (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2024-01-26 Gudrun Held
This paper examines the Italian folk concept of bella figura in the framework of politeness-theories and the various binary conceptions it provides for explaining the nature of human communication. BF is a culture-specific understanding of self-projection in everyday discourse: It is both, a cognitive concept concerning the “beautiful” embodiment of self, and a performative concept concerning the active
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Im/politeness research – what it says on the tin? (Not quite) Journal of Politeness Research (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2024-01-24 Barbara Pizziconi
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
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Discernment2 and Discernment1: does historical politeness need another binary? Journal of Politeness Research (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2024-01-23 Annick Paternoster
Historical politeness scholars use Discernment as a second-order metaterm for compulsory social behaviour that is scripted according to circumstances and rank difference. However, in Renaissance courtesy books the Italian verb discernere ‘to discern’ has a first-order meaning: to individually work out appropriate behaviour when the fit of rules to circumstances is unclear. Discernment1 and Discernment2
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Theorizing impoliteness: a Levinasian perspective Journal of Politeness Research (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2024-01-22 Chaoqun Xie, Weina Fan
Despite the fact that impoliteness research has spanned over three decades, it has been conceptualized persistently in terms of politeness as its binary opposite. In this paper, we endeavor to provide a theoretical framework for studying impoliteness as significant communicative practice. We aim to introduce Levinas’ face as an alternative to Goffman’s face and identify impoliteness with Levinas’ face
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The complexity of non-seriousness: a case study of a (mock?) mock impolite utterance Journal of Politeness Research (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2024-01-19 Jim O’Driscoll
This paper addresses the issue of verbal behaviour which, being neither markedly polite nor markedly impolite nor simply politic, is interpersonally ambivalent. It focuses on what are known as mock impolite utterances (in which a positive attitude to the addressee(s) masquerades as a negative one). Through the detailed analysis of one attested utterance, it shows that apparently non-serious utterances
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(Im)politeness as object, (im)politeness as perspective Journal of Politeness Research (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2024-01-15 Michael Haugh
The first-second order distinction has dominated theoretical discussions about (im)politeness for the past two decades. However, while there has been a lot of emphasis placed on different perspectives on (im)politeness in the field, what constitutes our object of understanding(s) arguably remains somewhat more elusive. In this paper, I suggest that one of the reasons for this is that we have inadvertently
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Conduct politeness versus etiquette politeness: a terminological distinction Journal of Politeness Research (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2023-12-16 Andreas H. Jucker
This paper argues for a distinction between “conduct politeness” and “etiquette politeness”, where the former refers to the propriety of what people do and the latter to the decorum of how people do things. In everyday discourse, the distinction is often fuzzy, but as a second order distinction the terminology provides a useful analytical tool. In the history of politeness in English, a bifurcation
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Reconfiguring the strategic/non-strategic binary in im/politeness research Journal of Politeness Research (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2023-12-16 Marina Terkourafi
In this article, I explore the potential of the strategic/non-strategic distinction to link im/politeness with recent developments in pragmatics more generally. My point of departure is the claim that the binary between strategic/non-strategic politeness, as drawn in previous research starting with the distinction between discernment and volition, leaves a blind-spot when it comes to established ways
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Off-record indirectness in Jordanian Arabic Journal of Politeness Research (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2023-12-06 Bilal A. Al-Adaileh
This paper is an attempt to explore the realisation and motives of off-record indirectness as a common mode of conversation in naturally occurring social interactions in Jordanian Arabic. It is found that off-record indirectness mirrors speaker’s considerateness of the face wants of the speech act recipient, communicating face-threatening acts indirectly. The need to be polite justifies conversation
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Revisiting the binary view of honorifics in politeness research Journal of Politeness Research (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2023-11-29 Dániel Z. Kádár, Juliane House, Keiko Todo, Tingting Xiao
In this paper, we revisit the popular assumption that politeness in languages such as Japanese and Korean with a complex honorific system is crucially different from politeness in languages with no comparably rich honorific repertoires, such as Chinese. We propose a bottom–up, contrastive and corpus-based model through which we challenge this binary view. This model combines interaction ritual and
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How the police (over)use explicit apology language to manage aspects of their identity Journal of Politeness Research (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2023-11-02 Ruth Friskney
Public and academic debate suggest a perception that institutions such as the police may be reluctant to apologise or ineffective when they do. This article takes the unusual step of considering the apology culture of the institution potentially offering apology as a crucial step in identifying possible barriers to change in institutional practice. I have analysed explicit apology language in letters
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“Write oneself into being”– Ha as an interpersonal pragmatic marker on WeChat Journal of Politeness Research (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2023-09-28 Xiaoyi Bi, Elizabeth Marsden
The pragmatic marker ha 哈 in Mandarin, has little meaning in itself; while some studies have looked into its usage in spoken discourse, we seek to address its usage and unpack its specific interpersonal pragmatic function in online, private, dyadic discourse, itself an underexplored area, and a setting in which participants are free from public scrutiny, unlike on mass social media. The results demonstrate
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Linguistic and relational strategies for advice giving in an online commercial context Journal of Politeness Research (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2023-09-21 Wen Yuan, Yue Jin
Studies on online advice-giving have focused on non-profit public platforms but rarely examined it in commercial contexts, where the advisor has the motive of seeking economic interests. This study investigates advice-giving in the first five-minute part of paid live talks, which is free but designed to entice the audience to pay for the remaining part. Transcripts of 123 five-minute recordings are
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Prosody influence on (im)politeness perception in Chinese-German intercultural communication Journal of Politeness Research (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2023-09-14 Jiazhen Cao
This paper aims to explore the influences of prosody on (im)politeness perception in intercultural communication. Based on empirical data collected in perceptual experiments, the paper compares the perception of the (im)politeness prosodic properties of L1 German speakers and L2 German speakers of Chinese origin. It was found that the two subject groups show clear distinctions in their (im)politeness
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Conceptualizations and evaluations of (im)politeness in Syrian Arabic Journal of Politeness Research (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2023-09-12 Christina Hodeib
This paper explores (im)politeness conceptualizations and evaluations and the moral foundations of lay notions of (im)politeness in Syrian Arabic. The data were collected using an online questionnaire which was administered to 88 native speaking participants. The results show that participants consider politeness and impoliteness as polar opposites; both are viewed as (in)consideration for others,
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A corpus-assisted analysis of indexical signs for (im)politeness in Japanese apology-like behaviour Journal of Politeness Research (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2023-08-31 Eugenia Diegoli
This study provides a corpus-assisted pragmatic investigation of three Japanese expressions: the adverb chotto ‘a little’, the verb-ending form -te shimau, conveying (formulaic) regret, and the conditional clause with -tara. These are deictic forms I refer to as indexical signs for (im)politeness because they can, under certain circumstances, trigger evaluations in terms of (im)politeness, potentially
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E-mpoliteness – creative impoliteness as an expression of digital social capital Journal of Politeness Research (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2023-08-16 Marta Andersson
This paper investigates the formal, conceptual, and functional characteristics of impoliteness in social media interactions, arguing that face-threatening acts can be viewed as an effective manifestation of social capital if delivered in a way that has potential to grant the user distinction in cyberspace – the process contingent on recognition by some groups and elimination of others. As argued in
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The in-group ritual of self-denigration in Iranian doctoral defense sessions: applied linguists’ attitudes, functions and perceptions in focus Journal of Politeness Research (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2023-08-10 Nadia Mayahi, Alireza Jalilifar
Drawing on a Symbolic Interactionist perspective and the Grounded Theory methodology, this study aimed to explore self-denigration from the perspective of Iranian applied linguists highlighting the significance of self-denigration as an in-group relational ritual in Iranian doctoral defense sessions. The data were obtained from rigorous coding of the transcripts of two focus groups and a questionnaire
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A cognitive-semiotic approach to impoliteness: Effects of conventionality and semiotic system on judgements of impoliteness by Russian and Swedish speakers Journal of Politeness Research (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2023-08-09 Vladislav Zlov, Jordan Zlatev
The field of (im)politeness studies has been steadily growing and developing but the role of conventionality and the type of semiotic system (e.g., language vs. gesture) for impoliteness perception has not been sufficiently explored. We used a cognitive-semiotic framework combining a reaction-time experiment and in-depth interviews with sixty participants to explore how Russian and Swedish native speakers
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“You can f*** get lost already”: (Responding to) impoliteness in the (in-)authentic discourse of comedy and crime TV series and movies Journal of Politeness Research (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2023-07-05 Hossein Talebzadeh, Marzieh Khazraie
As a vital means of communication in social life, people’s talk is likely to be influenced by the media, specifically film talk. The study aimed at understanding how impoliteness is presented in TV series and movies. We investigated, quantitatively and qualitatively, 928 min of interactions from selected comedy and crime genres (popular among a group of English as a Foreign Language [EFL] learners)
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Two phenomena behind the terminology of face Journal of Politeness Research (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2023-06-16 René Lacroix
In politeness research and other areas, scholars use a range of metaphorical expressions involving the term face, as in “lose face”, “threaten face” and “save face”, drawing upon Goffman’s paper “On face-work” (Goffman, Erving. 1967. Interaction ritual: Essays on face-to-face behavior. New York: Pantheon Books), often through Brown and Levinson’s influential theory of politeness (Brown, Penelope &
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Grand strategy of politeness in new social networks: revisiting Leech’s politeness theory among Iranian EFL learners using Telegram Journal of Politeness Research (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2023-06-12 Reza Ahmadi, Hiwa Weisi
Human beings utilize varied linguistic politeness to facilitate interaction and minimize the potential for conflict. With the advancement of the Computer-Mediated Communication (CMC) and the introduction of new social networks, studying how politeness operates within human communication opened up new avenues for research, particularly within diverse cultures. For this reason, the current study sought
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When the Norwegian ‘politeness marker’ vennligst becomes impolite Journal of Politeness Research (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2023-05-23 Kristin Rygg, Stine Hulleberg Johansen
This corpus-based study contributes to the ongoing discussion on conventional politeness markers, such as please, by being the first to examine how the corresponding Norwegian lexical item vennligst ‘please’ is used. The study investigates the use of vennligst in data from two Norwegian corpora in standard situations, where the relationship between the interlocutors is clear, and non-standard situations
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Impoliteness among multilingual Facebook users in Congo Brazzaville Journal of Politeness Research (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2023-05-03 Jean Mathieu Tsoumou
This paper analyses a 265,147-word corpus of multilingual Facebook comments discussing political news in Congo-Brazzaville, collected between 2015 and 2016. The commenters use French, Lingala, Kituba, as well as ethnic languages such as Laary, to provide evaluations of the news and engage in impolite exchanges with each other. It is now widely evidenced that digital discourse is increasingly attracting
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Dangerous politeness? Understandings of politeness in the COVID-19 era and beyond Journal of Politeness Research (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2023-04-06 Maria Sifianou
What (im)politeness means changes over time. As these changes are usually gradual, we tend to be relatively unaware of them. However, when changes are abrupt, people not only notice but are also concerned with them. The COVID-19 pandemic entailed such abrupt changes involving new rules most of which are at odds with the rather automatic conventions of politeness that we follow. My aim in this paper
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Mitigating strategies and politeness in German requests Journal of Politeness Research (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2023-03-24 Tanja Ackermann
This article empirically investigates possible politeness effects of different syntactic, morphosyntactic, and lexical mitigating strategies in German requests. In addition to the explicitness of the requestive utterance, internal and external modifiers as well as vocatives are considered. Based on the assumption that the weight of imposition has an influence on linguistic politeness, experimentally
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“Can I have a cup of tea please?”: politeness markers in the Spoken BNC2014 Journal of Politeness Research (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2023-02-27 Anna Islentyeva, Luise Pesendorfer, Igor Tolochin
Politeness is one of the stereotypes associated with the British that seems to be crucial in terms of their self-identification and self-perception. The focus of this study is four frequently-used politeness markers: please, thank you, thanks, and sorry. The paper aims to precisely identify the different senses of these words in the newly released corpus of spoken British English, the Spoken British
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Conceptualization of first-order politeness in Russia: an exploratory study Journal of Politeness Research (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2023-01-04 Victoriya Trubnikova
The aim of this article is to explore how politeness is conceptualized in modern Russia. The study adopts a bottom-up approach and gathers conceptualizations of different aspects of politeness by lay native Russian speakers. This study uses an open-ended questionnaire to elicit the concepts people generally associate with politeness, descriptive labels for polite people, as well as individual experiences
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Multimodal mitigation: how facial and body cues index politeness in Catalan requests Journal of Politeness Research (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2022-12-19 Iris Hübscher, Cristina Sánchez-Conde, Joan Borràs-Comes, Laura Vincze, Pilar Prieto
Recent cross-linguistic research has demonstrated that speakers use a prosodic mitigation strategy when addressing higher status interlocutors by talking more slowly, reducing the intensity and lowering the overall fundamental frequency (F0). Much less is known, however, about how politeness-related meaning is expressed multimodally (i.e., combining verbal and multimodal channels). The present study
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“I look with deep gratitude and admiration…” – praising and complimenting in papal speeches Journal of Politeness Research (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2022-11-18 Marzena Makuchowska
Recently, communicating admiration and appreciation in public discourse has become a subject of study since these acts play a very important role in shaping positive social relations not only on a micro scale, but also on a macro one. My goal in this study is to understand how public officials implement their intention to please addressees in an international arena, in contacts between different religious
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The impact of linguistic choices and (para-)linguistic markers on the perception of Twitter complaints by other customers: an experimental approach Journal of Politeness Research (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2022-11-16 Nicolas Ruytenbeek, Sofie Decock, Ilse Depraetere
This paper addresses how the realizations of different constitutive components of Twitter complaints shape the perception of these complaints by other customers. We present three experiments on French language in which we test how customer complaint perception is impacted by the realization of the complainable (Exp. 1), of the entity responsible for the complainable (Exp. 2), and of the customer’s
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Experiments into the influence of linguistic (in)directness on perceived face-threat in Twitter complaints Journal of Politeness Research (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2022-04-20 Nicolas Ruytenbeek,Sofie Decock,Ilse Depraetere
Abstract To date, there has been little attention for the factors that influence the perception of online complaints. We present two experiments in which we test the impact of the degree of linguistic (in)directness and the formal realization of complaint components on complaint perception. Our experimental stimuli are designed on the basis of French-language authentic Twitter complaints which have
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Sinkeviciute, Valeria: Conversational humour and (im)politeness: a pragmatic analysis of social interaction Journal of Politeness Research (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2022-03-24 Na Yang
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Freytag, Vera: Exploring Politeness in Business Emails: A Mixed-MethodsExploring Politeness in Business Emails: A Mixed-Methods Analysis Journal of Politeness Research (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2022-03-22 Carmen Santamaría-García
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Spencer-Oatey, Helen and Dániel Z. Kádár: Intercultural Politeness: Managing Relations across Cultures Journal of Politeness Research (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2022-03-22 Jiayi Wang
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Keqi (客气) in historical Chinese: evidence from metapragmatic comments Journal of Politeness Research (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2022-03-10 Hui Li
Abstract Keqi is a politeness1-related metalexeme in both historical and contemporary Chinese. It is often understood as synonymous to the etic metalexeme “polite”. This article explores the meaning of keqi in historical Chinese by delineating the shared characteristics of the verbal and non-verbal behaviors that are interpreted as keqi in participants’ metapragmatic comments (99 cases of bubi keqi
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Impoliteness in Twitter diplomacy: offence giving and taking in Middle East diplomatic crises Journal of Politeness Research (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2022-02-18 Thulfiqar Hussein M. Altahmazi
Abstract Drawing on linguistic impoliteness, this paper examines offence giving and taking in Twitter Diplomacy in the Middle East, explicating how Twitter affordances shape the context in which offence can be employed strategically in diplomatic communication. The dataset includes all the tweets posted by the Iranian Foreign Minister over a period of 10 years (totaling 659 tweets). The argument expounded
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How does experience teaching in Japanese EFL classrooms inform English native-speaker educators classroom practices? The negotiation of face in university classrooms Journal of Politeness Research (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2022-02-14 Joshua Kidd
Abstract Language teachers experience a range of challenges unique to the cultural and social contexts in which they work. To negotiate these challenges and facilitate language acquisition, teachers draw on linguistic and sociocultural knowledge of the L1 and L2. United by a desire to develop and/or maintain positive aspects of face, students and their teachers employ culturally, socially and individually
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Editorial: where we have been and where we are going Journal of Politeness Research (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2022-02-01 Karen Grainger,Jim O’Driscoll
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I wanted to honour your journal, and you spat in my face: emotive (im)politeness and face in the English and Russian blind peer review Journal of Politeness Research (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2022-01-17 Tatiana Larina,Douglas Mark Ponton
Abstract This study explores the degree to which politeness and emotive considerations are respected across two different academic traditions and linguistic settings; in Russian and English blind peer reviews. It analyses 120 authentic reviews (70 Russian and 50 British English) with the negative verdicts: “Reject” and “To be resubmitted after substantial revisions” using a pragmatic, contextual and
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Sassy Sasha?: The intersectionality of (im)politeness and sociolinguistics Journal of Politeness Research (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2021-07-27 Denise Troutman
Abstract This article focuses on intersections of race, gender, class, and (im)politeness within the African American speech community (AASC). Although general linguistic theorizing aims at universalizing (im)politeness, ultimately identifying common components within human (im)politeness systems worldwide, African American perspectives have not been interjected within that broader theorizing. Thus
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Duelling contexts: how action misalignment leads to impoliteness in a courtroom Journal of Politeness Research (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2021-07-26 Nathaniel Mitchell
Abstract This paper investigates linguistic and non-linguistic markers of negative evaluations of situated behaviours, termed impoliteness (Culpeper, Jonathan. 2011. Impoliteness: Using language to cause offence. In Drew Paul, Marjorie H. Goodwin, John J. Gumpertz & Deborah Schiffrin (eds.), Studies in interactional linguistics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press). The paper takes an interactional
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Twitter and the Real Academia Española: perspectives on impoliteness Journal of Politeness Research (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2021-07-12 Dale A. Koike,Víctor Garre León,Gloria Pérez Cejudo
Abstract This study presents first- and second-order approaches to impoliteness as found in the Twitter feed of the Real Academia Española, the official Spanish-language institution of the Hispanic world. We argue that impoliteness must be viewed from the perspective of the individual, reflecting their background experiences and knowledge, while also acknowledging norms of their communities. We collected
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Politeness as normative, evaluative and discriminatory: the case of verbal hygiene discourses on correct honorifics use in South Korea Journal of Politeness Research (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2021-05-03 Lucien Brown
Abstract This paper uses the concept of “verbal hygiene” (Cameron, Deborah. 1995. Verbal hygiene. Abingdon, UK: Routledge) to analyze metadiscourses in South Korea regarding a recent innovation in the use of subject honorific markers in the service industry. This innovation, commonly referred to as samwul contay ‘inanimate object respect’ involves using honorifics when the grammatical subject of the
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Politeness in professional contexts: foreign-language teacher training Journal of Politeness Research (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2021-04-22 Gerrard Mugford
Abstract This paper examines the professional context of teachers of English as a Foreign Language (EFL), whose first language is not English but who are required to help learners adhere to target-language (TL) politeness norms and practices. Many of these teachers have had little or no contact with TL countries/cultures and have limited professional training in this area. This paper highlights the
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Euphemism in laxative TV commercials: at the crossroads between politeness and persuasion Journal of Politeness Research (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2021-04-22 Eliecer Crespo-Fernández
Abstract Despite the stigma attached to human defecation and people’s reluctance to talk about it openly, there are certain communicative situations in which one cannot evade referring to the elimination of body wastes. This is the case of laxative TV commercials, a type of discourse focused on the infrequent or difficult evacuation of the bowels that constitutes a breeding ground for euphemism. In
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Teachers and supervisors negotiating face during critical account requests in post observation feedback Journal of Politeness Research (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2021-04-22 Helen Donaghue
Abstract This article shows, through the analysis of “real life” institutional interaction, how experienced teachers and supervisors negotiate face when teachers contest or manage supervisors’ critical account requests during post observation feedback meetings. A linguistic micro-analysis of data extracts is supplemented with ethnographic data drawn from participant perspective interviews and researcher
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Rejecting consumer complaints in customer encounters on Twitter - the case of English and Polish brand communication Journal of Politeness Research (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2021-01-13 Anna Tereszkiewicz
Abstract The following study focuses on strategies of denial and evasion of company responsibility used in responding to complaints, negative and critical comments posted by consumers on English and Polish brand profiles on Twitter. The analysis shows that despite the face-threat these acts may pose to the consumer and, consequently, to the company’s image, the companies do not refrain from using strategies
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Non-native EFL teachers’ email production and perceptions of e-(im)politeness Journal of Politeness Research (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2020-12-19 Maria Economidou-Kogetsidis,Helen Woodfield,Christine Savvidou
Abstract The present study investigates the nature of email requests to faculty produced by non-native speaker (NNS) teachers of English as a foreign language (EFL), the importance attached by these teachers to linguistic forms designed to achieve email politeness and status-congruence, and the extent to which perceptions and evaluations by the NNS teachers and native-speaker (NS) lecturers might differ
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‘Politeness Markers’ Revisited - A Contrastive Pragmatic Perspective Journal of Politeness Research (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2020-10-27 Dániel Z. Kádár,Juliane House
Abstract This paper revisits the concept of ‘politeness marker’, by proposing the bottom-up and corpus-based model of ‘ritual frame indicating expressions’ (RFIEs). Our central argument is that, in certain linguacultures, the relationship between ‘politeness markers’ and politeness itself is significantly stronger than in others. Therefore, any theory which argues that there is a definite relationship
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Alternative Approaches to Politeness and Impoliteness: An Introduction Journal of Politeness Research (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2020-10-24 Dániel Z. Kádár,Vahid Parvaresh,Rosina Márquez Reiter
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How can ethnography contribute to understanding (im)politeness? Journal of Politeness Research (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2020-10-20 Rosina Márquez Reiter
Abstract This article presents an invitation to explore the benefits of adopting an ethnographic approach to (im)politeness research rather than an introduction to, or overview of, a well-established method in anthropology. It unfolds in four parts. In the first, I discuss some of the different ways in which (im)politeness scholars have grappled to reconcile lay and analyst understandings of (im)politeness
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Sacred civility? An alternative conceptual architecture informed by cultural sociology Journal of Politeness Research (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2020-10-20 Mervyn Horgan
Abstract The roots of (im)politeness research in Durkheim’s sociology are neglected. Goffman is the go-to sociologist in (im)politeness research, and Goffman’s debt to Durkheim is substantial. This article argues that a renewed and broadened field of inquiry opens up around (im)politeness phenomena when we take seriously the centrality of Durkheim’s conception of the sacred to both the practice of
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Talking to God: conceptualizing an alternative politeness approach for the human/divine relationship Journal of Politeness Research (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2020-10-17 Kim Ridealgh
Abstract The human/divine relationship is a dynamic that does not easily fit into existing politeness research frameworks and approaches. This paper will look to explore this relationship further, within the ancient Egyptian Late Ramesside Letters (c. 1099-1069 BCE), in order to explore the limitations of facework and ritual in fully exploring the phenomenon, and offer an alternative approach - the
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Taking offence at the (un)said: Towards a more radical contextualist approach Journal of Politeness Research (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2020-10-16 Vahid Parvaresh,Tahmineh Tayebi
Abstract Many researchers in impoliteness studies have set themselves the task of determining, amongst other things, (i) what linguistic or non-linguistic phenomena can cause offence, and (ii) why people take offence. However, the reality of interaction clearly shows that, on many occasions, there appears to be a marked dissonance between the speaker and hearer in their evaluations of offensive language
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Giora, Rachel and Michael Haugh (eds.). 2017. Doing pragmatics interculturally. Cognitive, philosophical and sociopragmatic perspectives. Berlin and Boston: Mouton de Gruyter, xii + 420 pp., Hardback ISBN 978-3-11-054384-1. Price: Hb GBP £ 91/€ 99.95. Journal of Politeness Research (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2020-07-26 Nicolas Ruytenbeek
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Balancing power and solidarity through indirectness: A case study of Russian and Kazakh meeting chairs Journal of Politeness Research (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2020-07-26 Aisulu Kulbayeva
Abstract The study combines Brown and Levinson’s (1987) work on politeness techniques and Tannen’s (1981, 1993) work on indirectness and power-solidarity dynamics to extend research on workplace discourse. I examine how two female Russian-speaking chairs (one of Russian and another of Kazakh origin) differently perform face-threatening acts (FTAs) of criticisms and directives during teacher meetings
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Cultural outsiders’ evaluations of (im)politeness in Finland and in France Journal of Politeness Research (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2020-07-26 Johanna Isosävi
Abstract Intercultural interaction may be complicated by differing verbal and nonverbal displays of (im)politeness. Yet cultural outsiders’ evaluations of (im)politeness have not been widely examined. To fill this gap, this study investigated perceptions of Finnish politeness among French people living in Finland and perceptions of French politeness among Finns currently or previously living in France