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<br /></br><hr /><b>Novedad bibliográfica:</b><br />Geluykens,
Ronald. 2011. Politeness in Institutional Discourse. Face-Threatening
Acts in Native and Nonnative English Business Letters. Munich: Lincom
GmbH (Colección: LINCOM Studies in Pragmatics 20. 288 págs.,
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/><b>Descripción</b><br /><p> This volume reports on a
large-scale quantitative investigation into a variety of
face-threatening acts in authentic institutional discourse. The
contrastive analysis is based on a substantial corpus of 600 native
English, interlanguage (Dutch-English) and native Dutch business
letters. In all, over 2,000 tokens of face-threatening acts are
analyzed, covering a wide range of face threats (such as requesting,
promising, offering, inviting, warning, apologizing, wishing,
thanking, and confirming). <br /><br />The analysis, which employs
Brown and Levinson’s (1987) politeness model, focuses on a number of
distinct but related research questions, such as: <br /><br
/>-Pragmatic Variation: How are face-threatening acts realized in
written business discourse? In particular, to what extent do writers
use lexical, syntactic and textual resources to mark
(im)politeness?<br /><br />-Interlanguage Variation: To what extent do
native and interlanguage English realizations differ? Can such
differences, partly or completely, be attributed to pragmatic transfer
from the interlanguage users’ L1 (in this case Dutch)? <br /><br
/>-Cross-Cultural Variation: To what extent do English and Dutch
realizations differ, and what repercussions does this have in terms of
politeness? <br /><br />The book attempts to bridge the gap between
three fields: politeness research, institutional discourse studies,
and cross-cultural pragmatics (see also the Geluykens & Kraft 2008
volume in this series). It should thus be of interest not just to
researchers working in the field of linguistic (im)politeness, but
also to all those interested in institutional discourse in general,
and business writing in particular, and last but not least to
practitioners in cross-cultural and interlanguage pragmatics.</p><br
/><b>Temática:</b> Lingüística cognitiva, Pragmática<br /><br
/><b>Índice</b><br /><p>Table of Contents<br />Chapter 1: Theoretical
Framework<br />1.1. Introduction <br />1.2. Some Key Concepts<br
/>1.3. Analytical Framework: FTA Classification and Coding<br /><br
/>Chapter 2: Threats to the Reader’s Negative Face: Requests<br
/>2.1. Introduction <br />2.2. Syntactic Marking of Directness <br
/>2.3. Syntactic Marking of Indirectness <br />2.4. Lexical Marking of
Redressive Action<br />2.5. Sequencing and Supportive Moves<br />2.6.
Grounders as Supportive Moves <br />2.7. Other Types of Supportive
Moves<br />2.8. Summary<br /><br />Chapter 3: Threats to the
Writer’s Negative Face: Commissives<br />3.1. Introduction<br />3.2.
Promises<br />3.3. Offers<br />3.4. Invitations<br />3.5. Summary <br
/><br />Chapter 4: Threats to Positive Face: Warning and Apologies<br
/>4.1. Introduction<br />4.2. Warnings<br />4.3. Apologies<br />4.4.
Summary<br /><br />Chapter 5: Low-Level Face Threat s: Thanks, Wishes,
and Confirmations<br />5.1. Introduction<br />5.2. Expressions of
Thanks<br />5.3. Wishes<br />5.4. Confirmations <br />5.5. Summary<br
/><br />Chapter 6: Evaluation and Conclusion<br />6.1. Comparative
Summary of the Analysis<br />6.2. Limitations of the Current Study <br
/>6.3. Further Perspectives <br />6.4. Epilogue <br /><br
/>Bibliography<br />Appendix A: Native English Data<br />Appendix B:
Interlanguage English Data</p><br /><b>Información en la web de
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