From Speech Acts to Lay Understandings of Politeness

Taking an up-to-date and truly global approach, this volume presents a wide range of phenomena in politeness research, and discusses key developments in the field. Covering eight major world languages as well as several language varieties, a team of leading scholars provide a multilingual and multicultural perspective on various speech acts and emic conceptualisations of politeness, and a diachronic view of the field. Most significantly, the volume focuses on the latest trends in the field, such as metapragmatic approaches to im/politeness, politeness and globalization, politeness in computer mediated communication, and politeness and prosody, spanning a wide range of methodologies and types of data, including naturally occurring conversations, role plays, email messages, social media, online discussion forums, ethnographic interviews, focus groups, questionnaires, experiments and language corpora.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1107198054
• ISBN13: 9781107198050
• Release Date: August 2019
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 346 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 8.2" x 9.2"