Gender, Politeness and Pragmatic Particles in French

Kate Beeching | University of the West of England

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This study aims to investigate politeness in women’s and men’s speech, with a particular focus on the use of c’est-à-dire, enfin, hein and quoi in contemporary spoken French. Politeness is defined as going beyond the notion of the face-threatening act, englobing both everyday ideas of politeness and the creation of sociability in face-to-face interaction.
The pragmatic particles studied are demonstrated to serve both psycholinguistic and sociolinguistic purposes: they lubricate reformulation and contribute to both sociability and social indexation.
The study, which combines qualitative and quantitative analysis, is based on a corpus of spontaneous spoken French, comprising 155,000 words, 95 interviews and subjects ranging in age from 7 to 88 years. The sample contains speakers from a broader range of educational backgrounds than is often the case: a butcher, a video-salesman and a toiletteur canin rub shoulders with counter assistants, teachers and doctors.

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 104] 2002. x, 251 pp.

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https://doi.org/10.1075/pbns.104

Table of Contents

Preface and Acknowledgements | p. vii

List of abbreviations | p. ix

1. Introduction | pp. 1–46

2. Discourse markers and pragmatic particles | pp. 47–61

3. Establishing and investigating a corpus of spoken French | pp. 63–77

4. The qualitative analysis | pp. 79–105

5. Cest-à-dire (que) | pp. 107–126

6. Enfin | pp. 127–152

7. Hein | pp. 153–177

8. Quoi | pp. 179–205

9. Conclusion | pp. 207–217

Appendix | pp. 219–221

References | pp. 223–240

Index | pp. 241–246

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