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Politeness at work: Issues and challenges

In this article we will attempt to address some of the issues that arise in researching politeness in the workplace, especially, though not exclusively, in the context of multicultural and multilingual encounters...

Keywords: politeness, workplace communication, face, research methodologies, cross-cultural communication, interculturality

02/2006 | Journal of Politeness Research. Language, Behaviour, Culture, Walter de Gruyter

Face as relational and interactional: A communication framework for research on face, facework, and politeness

In a recent re-examination of face as related to politeness, Bargiela-Chiappini (2003: 1463) argues for examining “cultural conceptualizations of the social self and its relationship to others as an alternative and possibly more fruitful way of studying the relevance and dynamics of ‘face’ and ‘facework’ in interpersonal contacts”...

Keywords: face, Facework, relationship, Interaction, Communication, politeness

07/2006 | Journal of Politeness Research. Language, Behaviour, Culture, Walter de Gruyter

The discursive challenge to politeness research: An interactional alternative

The discursive approach to politeness represents one of the most coherent challenges to the dominance of Brown and Levinson's politeness theory to date, and indeed to the continuing viability of the field of politeness research itself...

Keywords: face, politeness theory, postmodernism, discursive approach, interactional

07/2007 | Journal of Politeness Research. Language, Behaviour, Culture, Walter de Gruyter

What's in an FTA? Reflections on a chance meeting with Claudine

This paper is about face-threatening acts (FTAs). It upholds the usefulness of the general concept as first introduced by Brown and Levinson but presents a different view of (1) what an FTA is and how it arises and (2) how to gauge the relative severity of one...

Keywords: face, Facework, face-threatening act, FTA, face-enhancing act, Interaction

07/2007 | Journal of Politeness Research. Language, Behaviour, Culture, Walter de Gruyter

Politeness: Is there an East-West divide?

Brown and Levinson (1987 [1978]) has remained the most seminal and influential starting point for studying cross-cultural and interlinguistic politeness...

Keywords: politeness, pragmalinguistics, socio-pragmatics, face, Chinese, Japanese, Korean

07/2007 | Journal of Politeness Research. Language, Behaviour, Culture, Walter de Gruyter

“I can now apologize to you twice from the bottom of my heart”: Apologies in Greek reality TV

While the speech act of apology has been investigated in a number of languages and cultures, there has been little research into apologies in Greek...

Keywords: apology, politeness, face, power, culture, reality TV

02/2007 | Journal of Politeness Research. Language, Behaviour, Culture, Walter de Gruyter

Politeness Theory and Relational Work

In this paper we briefly revisit politeness research influenced by Brown and Levinson's (1987) politeness theory...

Keywords: politeness, Impoliteness, face, relational work, Facework

01/2005 | Journal of Politeness Research. Language, Behaviour, Culture, Walter de Gruyter

(Im)Politeness, Face and Perceptions of Rapport: Unpackaging their Bases and Interrelationships

This paper takes rapport (Spencer-Oatey 2000, 2002) as its central concern, since (im)politeness is typically associated in some way with harmonious/conflictual interpersonal relations...

Keywords: face, politeness, rapport, values, identity, culture

01/2005 | Journal of Politeness Research. Language, Behaviour, Culture, Walter de Gruyter

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