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  • 2008

  • Watts, Richard J. (2008): Rudeness, conceptual blending theory and relational work. In: Journal of Politeness Research. Language, Behaviour, Culture 4 (2), S. 289-317. DOI: 10.1515/JPLR.2008.014

    Abstract: The present article takes a discursive approach to the topic of impoliteness, in which conceptualizations of impoliteness are construed in the process of real-time interaction. The term “discursive” refers neither to a conversational analytic approach to interaction nor to one which is derived from principles of Critical Discourse Analysis. It rests rather on lay members' ongoing interpretations of what constitutes inappropriate forms of behaviour rather than on a theoretical concept that we choose to label “impoliteness”. The article makes a case for rejecting the term “impoliteness” itself on two grounds: (a) that this term would only make it the mirror opposite of whatever is taken to be “politeness”, and (b) that lay members, if they comment on inappropriate behaviour at all, are more likely to use terms such as rude, offensive, or aggressive than impolite. If we wish to tease out evidence of such imputations in the absence of lexical items indexing behaviour from instantiations of oral interaction, we need to apply the insights of cognitive blending theory and to adapt that theory in such a way that it can account for differential conceptualizations of behaviour as inappropriate or not. In this sense, the article is intended as a contribution towards the wider theory of relational work which has emerged recently from politeness research

    Keywords: blending perspective, Disziplin, Good manners, Höflichkeit, Höflichkeitsforschung, Impoliteness, Linguistik, Politeness Theory and Relational Work, Soziale Angemessenheit, Theory of Linguistic Politeness vs. lay notions of politeness, Zweite Welle

  • 2005

  • Watts, Richard J.; Sachiko, Ide; Ehlich, Konrad (Hg.) (2005): Politeness in language. Studies in its history, theory and practice. 2. rev. and expanded ed. / with a new introd. by Richard J. Watts. Berlin u.a.: Mouton de Gruyter

    Abstract: This collection of 13 original papers focuses on the phenomemon of politeness in language. It presents the most important problems in developing a theory of linguistic politeness, which must deal with the crucial differences between lay notions of politeness in different cultures and the term "politeness" as a concept within a theory of lingustic politeness. The universal validity of the term itself is called into question, as are models by Brown and Levison, Lakoff and Leech. New approaches are suggested. In addition to this theoretical discussion, an empirical section presents a number of case studies and research projects in linguistic politeness. These show what has been achieved within current models and what still remains to be done, in particular with reference with cross-cultural studies in politeness and differences between a Western and a non-Western approach to the subject.

    Keywords: Aufsatzsammlung, Aufsatzsammlungen, Brown and Levinson's model, Disziplin, Favoriten, Good manners, Höflichkeit, Höflichkeitsforschung, (Im)Politeness Research, Klassiker, Kommunikation, Linguistik, Sammelband, Soziale Angemessenheit, Sprache, Theory of Linguistic Politeness vs. lay notions of politeness, Überblick
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