34.395, Books: Positive Social Acts: Danziger

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Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2023 17:13:23
From: Ellena Moriarty [ellena.moriarty at cambridge.org]
Subject: Positive Social Acts: Danziger

 


Title: Positive Social Acts 
Subtitle: A Metapragmatic Exploration of the Brighter and Darker Sides of Sociability 
Publication Year: 2023 
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
	   http://www.cambridge.org/linguistics
	

Book URL: https://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/languages-linguistics/semantics-and-pragmatics/positive-social-acts-metapragmatic-exploration-brighter-and-darker-sides-sociability?format=PB 


Author: Roni Danziger

Paperback: ISBN:  9781009184427 Pages:  Price: U.S. $ 22.00
Paperback: ISBN:  9781009184427 Pages:  Price: U.K. £ 17.00
Paperback: ISBN:  9781009184427 Pages:  Price: Europe EURO 19.84


Abstract:

Sociability is friendly behavior that is performed by a variety of positive
social acts that are aimed to establish, promote, or restore relationships.
However, attempts to achieve these interactional goals can fail or backfire;
moreover, interactants may abuse these strategies. A pragmatic focus on
positive social acts illuminates the ways they succeed in promoting
sociability and why they sometimes fail to enhance social relations. This
Element analyzes positive social actions receiving positive and negative
meta-pragmatic labels, such as firgun and flattery, in the Hebrew speaking
community in Israel. Adopting a meta-pragmatic methodology enables a
differentiation between positive communication and its evaluation as
(in)appropriate in context. The conclusion discusses the fuzzy line between
acceptable and unacceptable positive behavior and the benefits and perils of
deploying positive social acts in interaction. It also suggests a
conceptualization of the darker and brighter sides of sociability as
intrinsically connected, rather than polar ends.
 



1. Introduction; 2. Positively Evaluated Positive Social Acts; 3. Negatively
Evaluated Positive Social Acts: Over-politeness; 4. Conclusion; References.
 


Linguistic Field(s): Pragmatics
                     Semantics


Written In: English  (eng)

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