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(2010): Introduction. The status-quo and quo vadis of impoliteness research. In: Intercultural Pragmatics 7 (4), S. 535-559. DOI: 10.1515/iprg.2010.025
Abstract: The collection of papers included in this special issue seeks to contribute to the burgeoning field of impoliteness research, and to do so in a fashion that helps avoid replicating some of the common problems experienced traditionally by politeness scholars, namely, paucity of models, lack of interdisciplinary inquisitiveness and Anglo-centeredness. It also responds to the call for impoliteness to be theorized in its own right, not merely as the reverse of politeness, but also in relationship with politeness (cf. Xie et al 2005). Thus, as politeness strategies have been found to carry different values in different cultures (Pizziconi 2007), the realization and interpretation of impoliteness in different language and culture groups presents itself as a useful starting point to come to grips with conceptualizations of impoliteness.
1989
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(1989): Politeness and conversational universals – observations from Japanese. In: Multilingua - Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication 8 (2-3), S. 207-222. DOI: 10.1515/mult.1989.8.2-3.207
Abstract: Principles of conversation as postulated by Grice (1975), and the politeness theory proposed by Brown and Levinson (1978, 1987) are both presented as universal. Observations of politeness phenomena in Japanese, especially in the use of honorifics, cast such doubt on the explanatory power of these two theories for non- Western languages that it is not clear how, short of major revision, they can be considered as giving an adequate account of conversation and linguistic politeness. In Japanese, for example, social context plays a much larger role than is assumed in their theories. The discrepancy between the theories and practice in Japanese seems to be rooted in the variability across cultures in the expectation of the quantity and type of Information that should be conveyed in linguistic communication and in the variability of the motivations underlying the manifestation of politeness.
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