Publications

Publication details [#42917]

Lakoff, Robin Tolmach. 2005. The politics of Nice. Journal of Politeness Research 1 (2) : 173–191.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

election manifesto | politeness | political speech

Place, Publisher

De Gruyter

Journal WWW

www.degruyter.com/journal/key/JPLR/html

Annotation

This paper investigates examples of (ab)use of niceness-related criteria in recent American electoral campaign discourse and in the media treatments of Nancy Pelosi and Martha Stewart.