Cambridge University Press eBooks· 2013· Book chapter
Understanding Politeness
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Short summary
This book presents a new framework for understanding politeness, integrating social practice, time, and space to analyze interpersonal behaviors beyond conventional linguistic etiquette.
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Key points
- Politeness extends beyond linguistic etiquette to all interpersonal behaviors that explore and maintain relationships.
- The book utilizes a novel framework integrating social practice, time, and space to analyze politeness.
- It incorporates user and observer understandings from various languages and cultures.
- The work is structured in three parts with exercises and a glossary for researchers and postgraduate students.
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Abstract
Politeness is key to all of our relationships and plays a fundamental part in the way we communicate with each other and the way we define ourselves. It is not limited only to conventional aspects of linguistic etiquette, but encompasses all types of interpersonal behaviour through which we explore and maintain our relationships. This groundbreaking exploration navigates the reader through this fascinating area and introduces them to a variety of new insights. The book is divided into three parts and is based on an innovative framework which relies on the concepts of social practice, time and space. In this multidisciplinary approach, the authors capture a range of user and observer understandings and provide a variety of examples from different languages and cultures. With its reader-friendly style, carefully constructed exercises and useful glossary, Understanding Politeness will be welcomed by both researchers and postgraduate students working on politeness, pragmatics and sociolinguistics more broadly.
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