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Language and Dialogue
Vol. 14:1 (2024) ► pp.33–59

(Im)politeness mismatches in the multi-dialogic pragmatics of telecinematic satire

| Technion – Israel Institute of TechnologyHaifa, Israel
| University of British Columbia, Canada
| MGIMO UniversityMoscow, Russia
The paper addresses the problem of (im)politeness in light of mismatches between what we/others say and what we/others mean in a multi-dialogic search for meaning where humans integrate all their competence-in-performance and co-construct situated relationships in a more or less sustainable way. We examine how these processes occur by analyzing (im)politeness mismatches in telecinematic satire using dialogic speech act typology and methods of the Mixed Game Model to describe and explain the communicative meta-meaning of (im)politeness. We demonstrate that in satire the dialogic semantics of (im)politeness is polyvalent, interactant-relative, temporally variable, scalar and self-reflexive because it is part of integrational language-in-use engagement with the world through which humans construct multiple relational domains and relationships in them.
Keywords: competence-in-performance, meta-meaning, incongruity theory, Mixed Game Theory, dialogic speech act
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction: (Im)politeness mismatches and dialogue
  • 2.Multiple dialogicality of language
  • 3.Telecinematic discourse as a dialogue of dialogues
  • 4.Telecinematic satire and (im)politeness
  • 5.Data and method: (Im)politeness mismatches from the perspective of Mixed Game Theory
  • 6.Analysis
  • 7.Discussion and conclusion
  • Notes
  • References
Published online: 10 August 2023
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