Discursive Approaches to Politeness

✍ Scribed by Linguistic Politeness Research Group (editor)

• Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
• Year: 2011
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 284
• Series: Mouton Series in Pragmatics [MSP]; 8
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This collection of essays by the Linguistic Politeness Research Group represents the results of over a decade of the group's research, discussions, seminars and conferences on the subject of linguistic politeness. The volume brings together cutting edge essays reflecting the range of discursive approaches to the analysis of politeness and impoliteness.

✦ Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
Contents
Contributors
Introduction: The Linguistic Politeness Research Group
Chapter 1 Discursive approaches to politeness and impoliteness
Chapter 2 “It’s not what you said, it’s how you said it!” Prosody and impoliteness
Chapter 3 The limits of politeness re-visited: Courtroom discourse as a case in point
Chapter 4 “No, like proper north”: Re-drawing boundaries in an emergent community of practice
Chapter 5 Frontstage and backstage: Gordon Brown, the “bigoted woman” and im/politeness in the 2010 UK General Election
Chapter 6 ‘First order’ and ‘second order’ politeness: Institutional and intercultural contexts
Chapter 7 Discursive histories, personalist ideology and judging intent: Analysing the metalinguistic discussion of Tony Blair’s ‘slave trade apology’
Chapter 8 ‘Doing aphasia – Are you with me?’: Analysing face-work around issues of (non-)competence
Postscript
Index