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Tensions in current politeness research
journal contribution
posted on 2006-05-31, 10:00 authored by Chris ChristieThe papers in this special issue were initially presented at the Politeness and Power
conference held at Loughborough University in 2002. The papers range from studies that
focus on variation in linguistic behaviour within specific institutional contexts and those that
address cultural variation in politeness behaviour, to discussions that raise fundamental
questions about the conceptualisation and application of ‘politeness’ as an analytical tool. In
common with much work on politeness, Brown and Levinson’s (1987) model remains a
significant point of departure for many of the papers here, but the conceptualisation of
politeness and the analytical tools provided by this model are rarely applied here in an
unmodified form, or without being recalibrated to fit within an alternative framework. Indeed,
as the range of contexts within which politeness has been investigated has broadened in
recent years, so too have the theoretical frameworks that are called on in order to be able to
address the questions generated by the findings of such studies. My aim in this introduction
is to provide a brief context for the questions raised by the papers in this issue by outlining
some the key implications that arise from their relocation of the analysis of politeness within
this expanding set of theoretical frameworks, and pointing to some of the tensions that this
process generates.
History
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- The Arts, English and Drama
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CHRISTIE, C., 2004. Tensions in current politeness research. Multilingua, 23(1-2), pp. 1-11.Publisher
© Mouton de GruyterVersion
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Publication date
2004Notes
This article was published in the journal, Multilingua [© Mouton de Gruyter]: http://www.degruyter.de/journals/multilin/ISSN
0167-8507Language
- en