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Genre/Form: | Electronic books |
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Additional Physical Format: | Print version: Watts, Richard J. Politeness. Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2003 (DLC) 2003043599 |
Material Type: | Document, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Richard J Watts |
ISBN: | 0511067178 9780511067174 0511069308 9780511069307 9780511615184 0511615183 9780521790857 0521790859 9786610418145 6610418144 0511306458 9780511306457 9781107129603 1107129605 |
OCLC Number: | 252495138 |
Description: | 1 online resource (xiv, 304 pages) : illustrations |
Contents: | Introducing linguistic politeness -- Politeness through time and across cultures -- Modelling linguistic politeness (I) -- Modelling linguistic politeness (II): Brown and Levinson and their critics -- Facework and linguistic politeness -- A social model of politeness -- Structures of linguistic politeness -- Relevance theory and concepts of power -- Politic behaviour and politeness in discourse -- Politic behaviour and politeness within a theory of social practice. |
Series Title: | Key topics in sociolinguistics. |
Responsibility: | Richard J. Watts. |
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'I can think of no-one in the field better qualified to write a critical introduction to linguistic politeness research than Professor Watts. He has a lively critical awareness of the shortcomings of the standard approach, an excellent overview of the presently available alternative approaches, and a willingness to work within standard theory to make the politeness research paradigm more responsive to the needs and interests of researchers around the world. There is no doubt in my mind that a critical introduction to linguistic politeness will be met with enthusiasm by the world's politeness researchers. This book is predestined to become the first standard introduction to the field.' Professor Richard W. Janney, Institut fur Englische Philologie, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitat, Munchen 'The book as a whole is very clear and well-structured and provides both an overview and critique of existing politeness theories, but perhaps of more importance, he shows that there is nothing inherently polite about particular utterances, it is simply that some utterances may be more open to interpretation as polite than others ...'. Multilingua 'This excellent volume in a new series called Key Topics on Sociolinguistics is the first textbook on this subject ... This clearly written book will stretch its readers, leaving them with the sense that the field is more fertile and interesting than they may have imagined at the start ... An unusually rich and stimulating textbook ...'. The Times Higher Education Supplement '... this book is a unique book length work, offering an excellent review of the literature on politeness theories and adopting a discourse analytic approach to data. As such, it will be most beneficial to both first-time travelers to the world of politeness, as well as to others with a desire to advance their knowledge within the area.' Journal of Sociolinguistics Read more...


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- Sociolinguistics.
- Etiquette.
- Forms of address.
- Sociolinguistique.
- Titres de politesse.
- sociolinguistics.
- LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Linguistics -- Sociolinguistics.
- Kommunikation
- Sprache
- Relevanz
- Höflichkeit
- Beleefdheidsvorm.
- Discours.
- Modèle de comportement.
- Politesse.
- Savoir-vivre.
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