Exploring (Im)politeness in Specialized and General Corpora: Converging Methodologies and Analytic Procedures

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Yeşim Aksan, Şükriye Ruhi, Thomas Schmidt
Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Feb 5, 2015 - Language Arts & Disciplines - 275 pages
Corpus linguistic methods provide new avenues for (im)politeness scholarship to reflexively evaluate its understanding of communication and language use on the theoretical contributions of corpus linguistics to the linguistic sciences. In this sense, this volume is a unique contribution to (im)politeness scholarship. It showcases studies in the field which employ specialized and general corpora, with methodologies that range from the speech act to the discourse-analytic and conversation-analytic traditions. The book brings into closer contact scholarship that has hitherto remained in relatively different streams of the scientific investigation of (im)politeness.

A unifying theme of the chapters here is that (im)politeness phenomena are situated within the institutional and genre-specific expectations of participants in an interaction. Each of the chapters identifies the situatedness of (im)politeness from varying perspectives. The chapters in the volume are sequenced from specialized to general corpora, and simultaneously move from conversation – and discourse – analytic perspectives to contributions that address issues surrounding the identification and extraction of (im)politeness in general corpora. In collating the chapters of the volume, care was taken to focus attention on languages that have been studied extensively in (im)politeness scholarship (varieties of English – British English and Englishes in Hong Kong – and Greek), and languages that are only recently gaining more visibility in the field (Slovenian and Turkish).

 

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Contents

CHAPTER ONE
1
CHAPTER TWO
11
CHAPTER THREE
40
CHAPTER FOUR
82
CHAPTER FIVE
105
CHAPTER SIX
120
CHAPTER SEVEN
169
CHAPTER EIGHT
216
SUBJECT INDEX
256
AUTHOR INDEX
260
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2nd person action agent analysis approach behavior calls chapter closing collocates combination communication concordance context conversation corpora corpus linguistics Culpeper direct disagreement discourse discussed distribution domain encoding English examined example expectations expression of gratitude expressions Extract face findings forms frequent function genre give given humour identified imperative impoliteness impoliteness strategies indicate instances interaction interlocutors International John Journal language laughter lexical look means negative observed occur optative orientation participants perform person perspective plural politeness positive Pragmatics present query question reason reference relational relationship relevant request response retrieved Ruhi sağol sequences settings signal singular social speaker speech act spoken strategies structure subcorpus suggests Table talk teşekkür thanking formulae thanking strategies theory Turkish turn types utterance verb wishes

About the author (2015)

Şükriye Ruhi retired from Middle East Technical University as Professor of Linguistics in 2012. She continues to conduct research in pragmatics and is project director of the Spoken Turkish Corpus.

Yeşim Aksan is a Professor of Linguistics in English Language and Literature at Mersin University, Turkey. Her main research interests are corpus linguistics, lexical semantics, cognitive semantics and pragmatics. She is the project director of the Turkish National Corpus.

Bibliographic information

TitleExploring (Im)politeness in Specialized and General Corpora: Converging Methodologies and Analytic Procedures
EditorsYeşim Aksan, Şükriye Ruhi, Thomas Schmidt
Editionreprint
PublisherCambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015
ISBN1443874973, 9781443874977
Length275 pages
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Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics / General
Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics / Sociolinguistics
  
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