Broadening the Horizon of Linguistic Politeness

Editors

Robin T. Lakoff | University of California, Berkeley

Sachiko Ide | Japan Women’s University

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This collection of 19 papers celebrates the coming of age of the field of politeness studies, now in its 30th year. It begins with an investigation of the meaning of politeness, especially linguistic politeness, and presents a short history of the field of linguistic politeness studies, showing how such studies go beyond the boundaries of conventional linguistic work, incorporating, as they do, non-language insights. The emphasis of the volume is on non-Western languages and the ways linguistic politeness is achieved with them. Many, if not most, studies have focused on Western languages, but the languages highlighted here show new and different aspects of the phenomena.

The purpose of linguistic politeness is to aid in successful communication throughout the world, and this volume offers a balance of geographical distribution not found elsewhere, including Japanese, Thai, and Chinese, as well as Greek, Swedish and Spanish. It covers such theoretical topics as face, wakimae, social levels, gender-related differences in language usage, directness and indirectness, and intercultural perspectives.

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 139] 2005. xii, 342 pp.

Publishing status: Available

https://doi.org/10.1075/pbns.139

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments | p. ix

Foreword | pp. xi–xii

Introduction: Broadening the horizon of linguistic politeness

Robin T. Lakoff and Sachiko Ide | pp. 1–20

Part I. General overviews: The plenary papers

Civility and its discontents: Or, getting in your face

Robin T. Lakoff | pp. 23–43

How and why honorifics can signify dignity and elegance: The indexicality and reflexivity of linguistic rituals

Sachiko Ide | pp. 45–64

Whither politeness

Bruce Fraser | pp. 65–83

Part II. The theoretical perspective

Yoroshiku onegaishimasu: Routine practice of the routine formula in Japanese

Makiko Takekuro | pp. 87–97

An argument for a frame-based approach to politeness: Evidence from the use of the imperative in Cypriot Greek

Marina Terkourafi | pp. 99–116

The significance of ‘face’ and politeness in social interaction as revealed through Thai ‘face’ idioms

Margaret Ukosakul | pp. 117–125

Part III. The descriptive perspective

Face threatening acts, primary face threatening acts, and the management of discourse: Australian English and speakers of Asian Englishes

Christopher J. Conlan | pp. 129–144

Politeness in Thai computer-mediated communication

Krisadawan Hongladarom and Soraj Hongladarom | pp. 145–162

Polite diminutives in Spanish: A matter of size?

Martha Mendoza | pp. 163–173

Indirectness as a politeness strategy of Thai speakers

Deeyu Srinarawat | pp. 175–193

Part IV. The comparative perspective

Japanese honorifics as a marker of sociocultural identity: A view from non-western perspectives

Megumi Yoshida and Chikako Sakurai | pp. 197–215

Directness as a source of misunderstanding: The case of requests and suggestions

Alexandra Kallia | pp. 217–234

Forms of address in Irish and Swedish

Anders Ahlqvist | pp. 235–244

Women, men and polite requests: English and Greek

Ekaterini Kouletaki | pp. 245–274

Privacy: An intercultural perspective

Mark Lê | pp. 275–282

Selection of linguistic forms for requests and offers: Comparison between English and Chinese

Masako Tsuzuki, Kazuhiro Takahashi, Cynthia Patschke and Qin Zhang | pp. 283–298

Part V. The historical perspective

Japanese pronouns of address: Their behavior and maintenance over time

Andrew Barke and Satoshi Uehara | pp. 301–313

An aspect of the origins and development of linguistic politeness in Thai

Wilaiwan Khanittanan | pp. 315–335

Index | pp. 337–342

“The papers are a welcome addition to the literature on politeness and will have broadened the base from which scholarship that attempts to develop an etic model of politeness can draw its evidence. [...] To the extent that the volume offers perspectives on politeness behaviour from a range of cultural insiders, it is a useful contribution to the body of evidence against which claims about universality can be tested.”

Chris Christie, Loughborough University

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