This readable book presents a new general theoretical understanding of politeness. It offers an account of a wide range of politeness phenomena in English, illustrated by hundreds of examples of actual language use taken largely from authentic British and American sources.
This readable book presents a new general theoretical understanding of politeness. It offers an account of a wide range of politeness phenomena in English, illustrated by hundreds of examples of actual language use taken largely from authentic British and American sources.
Geoffrey Leech is Emeritus Professor of English Linguistics at Lancaster University, where he has been a faculty member for over 40 years. He has published many books and articles in the fields of English grammar, stylistics, pragmatics, semantics, and corpus linguistics. He was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 1987.
Inhaltsangabe
* Preface * PART I - Laying the foundations * 1. Introduction * 2. Politeness - Viewpoints * 3. Pragmatics, indirectness and neg-politeness: a basis for politeness modeling * 4. Politeness: the model * PART II - Politeness and impoliteness in practice * 5. A case study: Apologies * 6. Requests and other directives * 7. Other politeness-sensitive speech events * 8. Politeness and its 'opposites' * PART III - Further perspectives * 9. Methods of data collection: empirical pragmatics * 10. Interlanguage pragmatics and politeness across languages and cultures * 11. Politeness and the history of English * Appendix: Pragmatics, indirectness and neg-politeness: the background * References * Index
* Preface * PART I - Laying the foundations * 1. Introduction * 2. Politeness - Viewpoints * 3. Pragmatics, indirectness and neg-politeness: a basis for politeness modeling * 4. Politeness: the model * PART II - Politeness and impoliteness in practice * 5. A case study: Apologies * 6. Requests and other directives * 7. Other politeness-sensitive speech events * 8. Politeness and its 'opposites' * PART III - Further perspectives * 9. Methods of data collection: empirical pragmatics * 10. Interlanguage pragmatics and politeness across languages and cultures * 11. Politeness and the history of English * Appendix: Pragmatics, indirectness and neg-politeness: the background * References * Index
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