| Description |
vii, 280 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
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Encounters ; v. 1 |
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Encounters, 1471-0277 ; v. 2 |
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Encounters (St. Jerome Publishing) ; v. 1
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Encounter, 1471-0277 ; v. 2
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| Contents |
Contents note continued: 4.5.1.Neutral theories -- Ethical vs. technical principles -- Description vs. prescription -- The reification of politeness -- 4.5.2.Normative theories -- 4.5.3.What's wrong with normativity? -- 4.6.Summary -- ch. 5 Social and Psychological Issues -- 5.1.The social -- 5.1.1.The Parsonian normative order -- The cybernetic hierarchy -- Culture and society -- Social structure -- Consensus -- Functionalism -- Evolution and change -- 5.1.2.The polite order -- The cultural rule -- Social structure -- Social norms -- Social consensus -- Functional integration -- Social change -- 5.1.3.Summary -- 5.2.The individual -- 5.2.1.The Parsonian individual -- 5.2.2.The polite individual -- 5.2.3.The cultural individual -- 5.2.4.Summary -- 5.3.The social and the individual -- 5.3.1.Culture vs. the individual -- 5.3.2.Consensus -- 5.3.3.Social practice -- Habitus -- Argumentativity -- 5.3.4.Evolution and change -- 5.3.5.Norms and normativity -- |
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Contents note continued: Precepts, evaluations and norms -- Multiple norms -- Shared norms -- 5.3.6.Discursiveness -- 5.3.7.Culture -- 5.4.Summary -- ch. 6 Conclusion: Politeness Revis(it)ed -- 6.1.The arguments -- 6.2.The notion of politeness -- 6.3.Further research -- 6.4.Epilogue |
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Contents note continued: ch. 3 Conceptual Bias -- 3.1.The focus on ̀€polite' -- 3.2.Conceptualizing the distinction -- 3.3.The focus on production -- 3.4.Theoretical implications -- 3.4.1.The mystery of impoliteness -- 3.4.2.The elusive hearer -- 3.4.3.Predictiveness -- 3.4.4.Enter evaluation -- 3.4.5.The mystery solved -- 3.5.Origins of the conceptual bias -- 3.5.7.Sociolinguistics -- 3.5.2.Common sense -- 3.6.Summary -- ch. 4 Normativity -- 4.1.Norms in politeness theory -- 4.2.Theoretical norms -- 4.2.1.Appropriateness -- 4.2.2.Sharedness -- 4.2.3.Norm-ality -- 4.2.4.Summary -- 4.3.Empirical norms -- 4.3.1.Statistical analysis -- 4.3.2.Systematic variability and variable systems -- 4.3.3.Determining who knows best -- 4.3.4.Competence -- 4.3.5.Summary -- 4.4.Culture -- 4.4.1.Culture in theory -- Vague culture -- Homogeneous culture -- Sampled culture -- Polite culture -- 4.4.2.Culture in practice -- 4.4.3.Culture in difficulty -- 4.5.Science and normativity -- |
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Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 Theories of Politeness -- 1.1.Theories of politeness: an overview -- 1.1.1.Robin T. Lakoff -- 1.1.2.Penelope Brown and Stephen C. Levinson -- 1.1.3.Geoffrey Leech -- 1.1.4.Yueguo Gu -- 1.1.5.Sachiko Ide -- 1.1.6.Shoshana Blum-Kulka -- 1.1.7.Bruce Fraser and William Nolen -- 1.1.8.Horst Arndt and Richard Janney -- 1.1.9.Richard Watts -- 1.2.A preliminary round-up -- 1.3.Politeness beyond the core theories -- 1.4.Summary -- ch. 2 First- and Second-Order Politeness Epistemological Concerns -- 2.1.Politeness1 vs. Politeness2 -- 2.1.1.Politenessl -- Evaluativity -- Argumentativity -- ̀€Polite'-ness -- Normativity -- Modality and reflexivity -- 2.1.2.Politeness2 -- 2.2.The distinction in politeness theory -- 2.2.1.Lakoff -- 2.2.2.Brown and Levinson -- 2.2.3.Leech -- 2.2.4.Ide -- 2.2.5.Blum-Kulka -- 2.2.6.Gu -- 2.2.7.Fraser & Nolen -- 2.2.8.Arndt & Janney -- 2.2.9.Watts -- 2.3.Discussion -- Emic vs. etic -- Ambiguity in politeness theories -- |
| Notes |
Based on a special issue of the journal Pragmatics, v. 5, no. 2 1995 and on papers presented at the 92nd annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association, held in Washington D.C., 1993 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [259]-270) and index |
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Courtesy.
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Sociolinguistics.
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| Author |
Gal, Susan, 1949-
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Woolard, Kathryn Ann.
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American Anthropological Association. Meeting (92nd : 1993 : Washington, D.C.)
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| LC no. |
2001000426 |
| ISBN |
1900650401 (paperback) |
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190065041X (hbk) |
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