Manfred Kienpointner
List of John Benjamins publications for which Manfred Kienpointner plays a role.
Book series
ISSN 1877-6884
Journal
ISSN 2211-4742 | E-ISSN 2211-4750
Title
Ideologies of politeness
Edited by Manfred Kienpointner
Special issue of Pragmatics 9:1 (1999) ca. 125 pp.
Subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics
2022 Rhetoric Handbook of Pragmatics: Manual, Verschueren, Jef and Jan-Ola Östman (eds.), pp. 1159–1170 | Chapter
2022 Viva la libertà! : On persuasive definitions of “Liberty” within contemporary Italian political discourse Argumentation in European Politics, Andone, Corina and Bart Garssen (eds.), pp. 110–132 | Article
Few of the central concepts of political discourse are as controversial as “freedom”/“liberty”. However, although “freedom” definitely belongs to the so-called “essentially contested concepts”, even “a contested concept has an uncontested core” (Lakoff 2006: 23–24). This uncontested core can be… read more
2021 The pen is mightier than the sword: Malala Yousafzai’s reaction to verbal and nonverbal aggression in her 2013 UN-speech New perspectives on conflict, pp. 215–236 | Article
On October 9, 2012 Malala Yousafzai, a Pakistani schoolgirl, was severely wounded by a Taliban assassin’s bullet. This was the culmination of a history of conflict in the Swat valley region of north-western Pakistan. The historical, ethnic, political and religious reasons for this conflict are… read more
2020 Impoliteness online: Hate speech in online interactions (Im)politeness and Moral Order in Online Interactions, Xie, Chaoqun (ed.), pp. 125–147 | Chapter
This study provides an overview of the strategies and techniques of hate speech in online discourse (on online discourse or computer-mediated communication in general cf. e.g., Schwarzhaupt-Scholz 2004; Schmidt 2013; Dittler and Hoyer 2014; Seargeant and Tagg 2014). Based on a collection of online… read more
2018 Impoliteness online: Hate speech in online interactions (Im)politeness and Moral Order in Online Interactions, Xie, Chaoqun (ed.), pp. 329–351 | Article
This paper provides an overview of the strategies and techniques of hate speech in online discourse (on online discourse or computer-mediated communication in general cf. e.g., Schwarzhaupt-Scholz 2004; Schmidt 2013; Dittler and Hoyer 2014; Seargeant and Tagg 2014). Based on a collection of… read more
2017 Chapter 5. Reason and passion in political rhetoric: The case of Louise Michel’s (1830–1905) revolutionary discourse Argumentation across Communities of Practice: Multi-disciplinary perspectives, Ilie, Cornelia and Giuliana Garzone (eds.), pp. 99–126 | Chapter
The central question, which I wish to answer with the help of the following case study in political rhetoric, can be formulated as follows: Can Louise Michel’s revolutionary rhetoric successfully combine reason (logos), character (ethos) and passion (pathos)? Michel’s revolutionary rhetoric is part… read more
2013 Strategic maneuvering in the political rhetoric of Barack Obama Journal of Language and Politics 12:3, pp. 357–377 | Article
U.S. President Barack Obama’s rhetoric lends itself well as a highly interesting case study for exploring the possibilities of contemporary political rhetoric of being both successful on the one hand and rational, according to normative standards of argumentative discourse, on the other. Taking up… read more
2011 Figurative analogy in political argumentation Keeping in touch with Pragma-Dialectics: In honor of Frans H. van Eemeren, Feteris, Eveline T., Bart Garssen and Francisca Snoeck Henkemans (eds.), pp. 39–58 | Article
2011 Rhetoric Pragmatics in Practice, Östman, Jan-Ola and Jef Verschueren (eds.), pp. 264–277 | Article
2011 Figures of Speech Discursive Pragmatics, Zienkowski, Jan, Jan-Ola Östman and Jef Verschueren (eds.), pp. 102–118 | Article
2009 Plausible and fallacious strategies to silence one’s opponent Examining Argumentation in Context: Fifteen studies on strategic maneuvering, Eemeren, Frans H. van (ed.), pp. 61–75 | Article
2005 Rhetoric Handbook of Pragmatics: 2003–2005 Installment, Östman, Jan-Ola and Jef Verschueren (eds.), pp. 1–13 | Article
2005 Racist manipulation within Austrian, German, Dutch, French and Italian right-wing populism Manipulation and Ideologies in the Twentieth Century: Discourse, language, mind, Saussure, Louis de and Peter J. Schulz (eds.), pp. 213–235 | Article
2001 Figures of Speech Handbook of Pragmatics: 1999 Installment, Verschueren, Jef, Jan-Ola Östman, Jan Blommaert † and Chris Bulcaen (eds.), pp. 1–19 | Article
2001 Modern revivals of Aristotle’s and Cicero’s Topics: Toulmin, Perelman, Anscombre-Ducrot Papers on Grammar: Volume VII, Bertocchi, Alessandra, Mirka Maraldi and Anna Orlandini (eds.), pp. 17 ff. | Article
2001 The reproduction of culture through argumentative discourse: Studying the contested nature of Hong Kong in the international media Pragmatics 11:3, pp. 285–307 | Article
Discourse and communication approaches to culture have traditionally been concerned with the role of language in (mis)representing cultures. But how text and talk reproduce and transform cultures is just beginning to be understood. Proceeding from the view that cultural creation, development and… read more
1999 Ideologies of politeness: Foreword Ideologies of politeness, Kienpointner, Manfred (ed.), pp. 1–4 | Article
1997 Varieties of rudeness: Types and functions of impolite utterances Functions of Language 4:2, pp. 251–287 | Article
Standard theories of politeness (Lakoff 1975, Leech 1983, Brown and Levinson 1987) face a number of problems. To mention but a few, it can be doubted that these theories have managed to establish truly universal concepts and classifications of (im)polite behavior; they exaggerate the relative… read more
1995 Rhetoric Handbook of Pragmatics: Manual, Verschueren, Jef, Jan-Ola Östman and Jan Blommaert † (eds.), pp. 453–461 | Article
1995 Review of Sandig & Püschel (1992): Stilistik III: Argumentationsstile Functions of Language 2:1, pp. 114–120 | Review
1987 15. The pragmatics of argumentation The Pragmatic Perspective: Selected papers from the 1985 International Pragmatics Conference, Verschueren, Jef and Marcella Bertuccelli Papi (eds.), pp. 277–290 | Chapter