[Linganth] List of (im)politeness readings

Fri Apr 12 17:38:01 UTC 2024

Dear Ling Anth friends,

A million thanks to the various people who were so kind as to offer reading
suggestions for a new course about (im)politeness. I have gathered all of
the sources below if it's useful to anyone out there.

Berman, Elise. 2014. "Negotiating Age: Direct Speech and the
Sociolinguistic Production of Childhood in the Marshall Islands." *Journal
of Linguistic Anthropology* 24 (2): 109-132.

--. 2019. *Talking Like Children: Language and the Production of Age in the
Marshall Islands*. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Bonilla-Silva, Eduardo. 2002. "The Linguistics of Color Blind Racism: How
to Talk Nasty about Blacks without Sounding “Racist”." *Critical Sociology*
28 (1-2): 41-64.

Brown, Penelope, and Stephen C. Levinson. 1987. *Politeness: some
universals in language usage*. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Chun, Elaine W. 2016. "The meaning of ching-chong: Language, racism, and
response in new media." In *Raciolinguistics: How language shapes our ideas
about race*: 81-96.

Culpeper, Jonathan. 2011. *Impoliteness: Using Language to Cause
Offence*.*Studies
in Interactional Sociolinguistics*. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

--. 2011. Politeness and Impoliteness. *Pragmatics of Society* (Vol. 5). G.
Andersen and K. Aijmer. Boston, De Gruyter. 5: 393-438.

--. 2011. *Using Language to Cause Offence*. Cambridge, University of
Cambridge Press.

Delfino, Jennifer B. 2016. "Fighting words? Joning as conflict talk and
identity performance among African American preadolescents." *Journal of
Sociolinguistics* 20 (5): 631-653.

Duranti, Alessandro. 2022. *Rethinking Politeness with Henri Bergson*.
Edited by Alessandro Duranti. Oxford University Press.

Gershon, Ilana. 2010. *The Breakup 2.0 Disconnecting over New Media*.
Cornell University Press.

---. 2020. "The Breakup 2.1: The ten-year update." *The Information Society*
36 (5): 279-289.

Goodwin, Marjorie Harness. 1990. *He-said-she-said: talk as social
organization among Black children*. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.

Grimshaw, Allen D. 1990. *Conflict talk: Sociolinguistic investigations of
arguments in conversations*. CUP Archive.

Gumperz, John J. 1982. "Interethnic communication." In *Discourse
Strategies*, edited by John J. Gumperz, In Studies in Interactional
Sociolinguistics, 172-186. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Haugh, Michael and Daniel Kádár. 2017. Intercultural (Im)politeness. In *The
Palgrave Handbook of Linguistic (Im)politeness*. Edited by J. Culpeper, M.
Haugh and D. Kádár. London, Palgrave Macmillan: 601-632.

Hoffmann-Dilloway, Erika. 2021. "Shadows and Mirrors: Spatial and
Ideological Perspectives on Sign Language Competency." *Journal of
Linguistic Anthropology* 31 (3): 320-334.

Kádár, Daniel. and Michael Haugh. 2013. *Understanding Politeness*. New
York, Cambridge.

Keating, Elizabeth. 1997. "Honorific Possession: Power and Language in
Pohnpei, Micronesia." *Language in Society* 26 (2): 247-268.

Kiesling, Scott F. 2004. "Dude." *American Speech* 79 (3): 281-305.

Locher, Miriam A. and Watts, Richard J. 2005. "Politeness Theory and
Relational Work*" Journal of Politeness Research* 1 (1): 9-33.

*Maledicta, The International Journal of Verbal Aggression *

McIntosh, Janet. "Maledictive Language: Obscenity and Taboo Words." *The
International Encyclopedia of Linguistic Anthropology* (2020): 1-9.

McSweeney, Michelle. 2022. "Performing Politeness in Online Dating: How
Orthographic Choices Signal Relationship Status." 251-275. Springer
International Publishing.

Miller, Laura. 2022. "Bad Mouths: Taboo and Transgressive Language." *Annual
Review of Anthropology* 51 (Volume 51, 2022): 17-30.

Monson, Sarah. 2022. "Pampering customers with sweet talk: Negotiating
politeness and (mock) conflict talk in Akan marketplace bargaining." *Journal
of Pragmatics* 191: 240-255.

Murphy, Keith M. 2022. "Programming Politeness: Digital Servantry and the
Rules of Social Engagement." In *Rethinking Politeness with Henri Bergson*,
edited by Alessandro Duranti. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Powdermaker, Hortense. 1966. "First Month in Indianola." In *Stranger and
Friend: The Way of an Anthropologist *New York: Norton & Co.: 144-205

Shibamoto-Smith, Janet S. 2011. "Honorifics, “politeness,” and power in
Japanese political debate." *Journal of Pragmatics* 43 (15): 3707-3719.

Silverstein, Michael. 2010. "“Direct” and “indirect” communicative acts in
semiotic perspective." *Journal of Pragmatics* 42 (2): 337-353.

SturtzSreetharan, Cindi L. 2006. "Gentlemanly gender?: Japanese men's use
of clause-final politeness in casual conversations1." *Journal of
Sociolinguistics* 10 (1): 70-92.

Su, Hsi-Yao. 2023. "Politeness as signs of difference: Semiotic
differentiation and identity among Taiwanese in China." *Journal of
Sociolinguistics* 27 (1): 66-86.

Tannen, Deborah. 1981. "New York Jewish conversational style." *International
Journal of the Sociology of Language* 30: 133-149.

Tetreault, Chantal. 2010. "Collaborative Conflicts: Teens Performing
Aggression and Intimacy in a French Cité." *Journal of Linguistic
Anthropology* 20 (1): 72-86.

---. 2015. “What do you think about having beauty marks on your—Hashek!”:
Innovative and Impolite Uses of an Arabic Politeness Formula among French
Teenagers.” *Journal of Linguistic Anthropology* 25 (3): 285-302.

van der Bom, Isabelle, and Sara Mills. 2015. "A discursive approach to the
analysis of politeness data." *Journal of Politeness Research* 11 (2):
179-206.

Watts, Richard J. 2003. *Politeness*: *Key Topics in Sociolinguistics*.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Wierzbicka, Anna. 1991. *Cross-Cultural Pragmatics: The Semantics of Human
Interaction*. Edited by Winter Werner. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter Mouton.

Yahya-Othman, Saida. 1995. "Aren’t you going to greet me? Impoliteness in
Swahili greetings." *Text & Talk* 15 (2): 209-228.

Also a few people suggested Deborah Cameron blog:
https://debuk.wordpress.com/

All the very best,
Cheryl

-- 
Cheryl Yin, PhD (*she/her/hers*)
Assistant Professor of Anthropology
Department of Sociology and Anthropology
Carleton College
cyin at carleton.edu
website <http://www.cherylyin.com>
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