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Beyond the micro-level in politeness research
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In this paper, a frame-based view of politeness is proposed, which combines the traditional and post-modern views in a three-layered schema addressing politeness phenomena at different levels.Abstract:
Politeness research to date has generally adopted one of two views: the “traditional” view based on the dual premises of Grice’s Co-operative Principle and speech act theory (Lakoff 1973, Brown and Levinson 1987 [1978], Leech 1983), or the “post-modern” view, which rejects these premises and substitutes them by an emphasis on participants’ own perceptions of politeness (politeness1) and on the discursive struggle over politeness (Eelen 2001, Mills 2003, Watts 2003). Contrasting these two views, this article considers not only their points of disagreement, but, crucially, points where the two views coincide, bringing to light their common underlying assumptions. It then goes on to show how, departing from these common assumptions, a third direction for politeness studies, the “frame-based” view, is possible. Following an outline of the frame-based view, it is suggested that this fits in with the traditional and the post-modern views in a three-layered schema addressing politeness phenomena at different levelsread more
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Impoliteness: Using Language to Cause Offence
TL;DR: In this article, the authors introduce the notion of impoliteness and define a metadiscourse for understanding it: face and social norms, intentionality and emotions, and co-texts and contexts.
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The discursive challenge to politeness research: An interactional alternative
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Conventionalised impoliteness formulae
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Im/politeness, social practice and the participation order
TL;DR: In this article, it is argued that an analysis of im/politeness as social practice necessitates a move away from a simplistic speaker-hearer model of interaction to a consideration of the broader participation framework within which they arise, and the positioning of the analysts vis-a-vis that participation order.
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Impoliteness in a cultural context
TL;DR: The authors analyse the way that generalisations about impoliteness at a cultural level are frequently underpinned by stereotypical and ideological knowledge and argue that these views of outgroups and their levels of politeness are in part occasioned by the use of models of impoliteeness which were developed to describe interaction at the level of the individual, rather than social models.
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Politeness : Some Universals in Language Usage
TL;DR: Gumperz as discussed by the authors discusses politeness strategies in language and their implications for language studies, including sociological implications and implications for social sciences. But he does not discuss the relationship between politeness and language.