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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“Girls on tour”: Politeness, small talk, and gender in managerial business meetings
Politeness at work is examined in this paper by focusing on small talk as a form of linguistic politeness in relation to gender in business meetings...
Keywords: politeness, small talk, gender, performativity, communities of practice, gendered discourse
02/2006 | Journal of Politeness Research. Language, Behaviour, Culture, Walter de GruyterPoliteness in small shops in France
This study aims to show that a distinguishing feature of interactions in small shops in France is the very large number of polite formulae, which seek to “polish” and soften the transactional process...
Keywords: closing rituals, opening rituals, politeness, request, small shops, thanking
02/2006 | Journal of Politeness Research. Language, Behaviour, Culture, Walter de GruyterPoliteness in the portrayal of workplace relationships: Second person address forms in Peninsular Spanish and the translation of humour.
This paper focuses on the role of translation in the exploration of intercultural communication and the issues that second person forms of address raise when translating humorous texts from English to Spanish, since Spanish differentiates between singular and plural second person pronouns and English does not...
Keywords: t, usted, politeness, translation, humour
02/2006 | Journal of Politeness Research. Language, Behaviour, Culture, Walter de GruyterPoliteness markers in French: post-posed quoi in the Tourist Office
Post-posed quoi is traditionally stigmatized as a meaningless filler or “tic” and considered inappropriate in formal or polite speech...
Keywords: quoi, politeness, French, corpus, camaraderie, hedge
02/2006 | Journal of Politeness Research. Language, Behaviour, Culture, Walter de GruyterFace 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 GruyterImpoliteness in children's interactions in a Spanish/English bilingual community of practice
This article examines how participants do impoliteness in children's peer interaction in a second grade, Spanish/English bilingual community of practice in an elementary school in the Southwestern United States...
Keywords: Impoliteness, conversation, Mexican-American, bilingual, Spanish, politeness, rapport-management
07/2006 | Journal of Politeness Research. Language, Behaviour, Culture, Walter de GruyterStrategies of apologizing in Lombok Indonesia
This article investigates the use of different semantic formulas in apologizing in Lombok Indonesia in six different situations, varying in status and solidarity relationships between participants, based on discourse completion test data...
Keywords: politeness, pragmatics, apologizing, Indonesia
07/2006 | Journal of Politeness Research. Language, Behaviour, Culture, Walter de GruyterInstitutional apologies in UK higher education: Getting back into the black before going into the red
A small corpus of student e-mail apologies to academic staff was collected in order to investigate the nature and structure of the apology act...
Keywords: apology, sequence, computer-mediated discourse, equity, politeness, face apology
02/2007 | Journal of Politeness Research. Language, Behaviour, Culture, Walter de GruyterPoliteness: 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 GruyterPoliteness 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 GruyterImpoliteness and Entertainment in the Television Quiz Show: The Weakest Link
Building on Culpeper (1996) and Culpeper et al. (2003), I first propose a new definition of impoliteness and general revisions to my model of impoliteness, both derived from data analyses...
Keywords: Impoliteness, mimicry, politeness, prosody, quiz shows, sarcasm
01/2005 | Journal of Politeness Research. Language, Behaviour, Culture, Walter de GruyterSocial Psychology, Cognitive Psychology, and Linguistic Politeness
Politeness can be viewed as a theoretical construct existing at the intersection of cultural, social, cognitive, and linguistic processes...
Keywords: politeness, person perception, language comprehension, social psychology, cognitive psychology, cross-cultural psychology
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 GruyterThe politics of Nice
Previous discussions of politeness have focused on its function in dyadic encounters...
Keywords: politeness, public and private, language and gender, political rhetoric
07/2005 | Journal of Politeness Research. Language, Behaviour, Culture, Walter de GruyterGender and impoliteness
This article analyzes the complex relationship between gender and impoliteness. Rather than assuming that gender and impoliteness are concrete entities which can be traced in conversation, I argue that gender and impoliteness are elements which are worked out within the course of interaction...
Keywords: gender, Impoliteness, politeness, assertiveness, co-operativeness, nice
07/2005 | Journal of Politeness Research. Language, Behaviour, Culture, Walter de Gruyter