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Politeness in Professional Contexts
Edited by Dawn Archer, Karen Grainger and Piotr Jagodziński
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series 311] 2020
► pp. 151–178

Chapter 7
Intercultural (Im)politeness

Influences on the way professional British Sign Language/English interpreters mediate im/polite language

| Queen Margaret University
Keywords: interpreters, interpreting, signed language, familiarity, rapport management, influences, intercultural interaction, evaluations, latent networks, British Sign Language
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.Background
    • 2.1Liaison interpreting
    • 2.2British Sign Language
    • 2.3(Im)politeness and rapport
    • 2.4Cross-cultural and intercultural research
    • 2.5Interpreting (im)politeness
  • 3.Method
    • 3.1Participants
    • 3.2Data generation
    • 3.3Analysis
  • 4.Results
    • 4.1The environment
    • 4.2Consequence
    • 4.3Sophistication
    • 4.4Intention
    • 4.5Self-preservation
    • 4.6Visibility
    • 4.7Familiarity
  • 5.Discussion
  • 6.Conclusion
  • Note
  • References
Published online: 21 August 2020
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