Publications

Publication details [#65067]

Grainger, Karen. 2018. “We’re not in a club now”: a neo-Brown and Levinson approach to analyzing courtroom data. Journal of Politeness Research 14 (1) : 19–38.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

courtroom conversation | face maintenance | interaction | politeness | speech act theory

Place, Publisher

De Gruyter

Journal WWW

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

Annotation

This assay of a courtroom interaction displays how some of the notions from Brown and Levinson’s theory, like face-threatening conduct and positive and negative politeness, can supply a lexicon to discuss dynamic situated interaction.