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  • 2017

  • Fukushima, Saeko; Sifianou, Maria (2017): Conceptualizing politeness in Japanese and Greek. In: Intercultural Pragmatics 14 (4), S. 525-555. DOI: 10.1515/ip-2017-0024

    Abstract: The main aim of this paper is to investigate how Japanese and Greek female students conceptualize politeness and then compare the findings in order to tease out any cross-cultural similarities and differences. The data is drawn from a questionnaire filled in by two hundred female undergraduates (one hundred from each group). The results show that there are significant similarities as well as some differences. Although research on im/politeness has concentrated almost exclusively on linguistic performance, a significant similarity between the two groups is that politeness is conceptualized as primarily non-linguistic action. Another major similarity is that both groups conceptualize politeness mainly as "consideration to others" and "appropriate behavior," the former expressed mostly non-linguistically and the latter involving both linguistic and non-linguistic manifestations. Most participants view politeness as conveyed through attentiveness/helping others, respect and empathy. Differences were located mostly in the numbers of participants who mentioned the various subcategories. For example, more Greek participants related a broad sense of "respect" to politeness, whereas more Japanese participants related it to "empathy" and only Japanese participants mentioned "honorifics." Our participants' understandings of politeness appear to be in contrast to earlier politeness theories which view politeness as strategic concern for conflict avoidance and closer to current approaches which view it as relational, expressing concern for the needs and feelings of others.

    Keywords: Disziplin, Good manners, Greek, Höflichkeit, Japanese, Linguistik, non-linguistic action, Politeness as expression of concern, Soziale Angemessenheit

  • 2011

  • Bax, Marcel (2011): Understanding Historical (Im)Politeness. In: Journal of Historical Pragmatics 12 (1-2), S. 255-282. DOI: 10.1075/jhp.12.1-2.11bax

    Abstract: This paper is intended as an overall template of the evolution of (im)politeness. It elucidates how (linguistic) rapport management originated and developed over time, and tries to come to grips with (some of) the sociocultural factors behind such changes. Taking its point of departure in human prehistory (Section 1), the paper argues that, contrary to received wisdom, politeness and impoliteness are not two sides of the same coin (Section 2), and it discusses the dissimilar evolutionary antecedents of politeness and impoliteness (Sections 3 and 4). The paper then maps out three broad-scale diachronic trends regarding the conveyance of interpersonal distance, ipso facto the marking out of socio-proxemic interactional space; namely, (a) from performative to verbal, (b) from self-display to other-concern and (c) from collectivity-oriented to individual-oriented (Section 5).

    Keywords: collectivity-oriented vs. individual-oriented politeness, Disziplin, Favoriten, Genese, Geschichte, Good manners, Höflichkeit, Höflichkeitsforschung, (Im)Politeness Research, Impoliteness, Linguistik, performative vs. verbal politeness, Politeness and impoliteness as fundamentally diferrent principles, Politeness as expression of concern, Proxemik, socio-proxemic, Soziale Angemessenheit, Überblick
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