Publications

Publication details [#56661]

Sifianou, Maria and Arın Bayraktaroğlu. 2012. The iron fist in a velvet glove: How politeness can contribute to impoliteness. Journal of Politeness Research 8 (2) : 143–160.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

audience approval | conflict | face maintenance | politeness | television

Language as a subject

English, British

Place, Publisher

De Gruyter

Journal WWW

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

Annotation

This paper uses audience-approved, 'sanctioned aggressive facework' data from the BBC TV programme 'The weakest link', tho highlight how both politeness and impoliteness strategies may be used in the same institutional (as in natural) encounter.