Mock Politeness in English and Italian A Corpus-Assisted Metalanguage Analysis |
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Author:
| Taylor, Charlotte |
Series title: | Pragmatics and Beyond New Ser. |
ISBN: | 978-90-272-5672-0 |
Publication Date: | Oct 2016 |
Publisher: | John Benjamins Publishing Company
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Book Format: | Hardback |
List Price: | AUD $216.95 |
Book Description:
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This volume presents an in-depth analysis of mock politeness, bringing together research from different academic fields and investigating a range of first-order metapragmatic labels for mock politeness in British English and Italian. It is the first book-length theorisation and detailed description of mock politeness and, as such, contributes to the growing field of impoliteness. The approach taken is methodologically innovative because it takes a first-order metalanguage approach,...
More DescriptionThis volume presents an in-depth analysis of mock politeness, bringing together research from different academic fields and investigating a range of first-order metapragmatic labels for mock politeness in British English and Italian. It is the first book-length theorisation and detailed description of mock politeness and, as such, contributes to the growing field of impoliteness. The approach taken is methodologically innovative because it takes a first-order metalanguage approach, basing the analysis on behaviours which participants themselves have identified as impolite. Furthermore, it exploits the affordances of corpus pragmatics, a rapidly developing field. Mock Politeness in English and Italian: A corpus-assisted metalanguage analysis will be of interest to scholars and postgraduate students researching im/politeness and verbal aggression, in particular those interested in im/politeness implicatures and non-conventional meanings.