[Linganth] Readings on Politeness

Thu Mar 21 12:22:30 UTC 2024

Dear Cheryl,

I recommend Sandro Duranti's recent edited volume on "Rethinking Politeness
with Henri Bergson":
https://global.oup.com/academic/product/rethinking-politeness-with-henri-bergson-9780197637869?cc=us&lang=en&#

It has chapters by Duranti, Bergson, Mahalia Gayle, Judith Irvine, Aliyah
Morgenstern, Graham Jones, Terra Edwards, Kamala Russell, Keith Murphy,
Jason Throop, and Bill Hanks.

Beyond that, there are some good sources on IM-politeness (a great way to
approach politeness) mentioned in my encyclopedia article on "Obscenity and
Taboo words," here:
https://www.academia.edu/41573902/Obscenity_and_Taboo_Words_Encyclopedia_article_

And I highly recommend Laura Miller's Annual Review article on "Bad Mouths:
Taboo and Transgressive Language":
https://www.annualreviews.org/content/journals/10.1146/annurev-anthro-041420-112543

Good luck!!

Very best wishes,
Janet McIntosh

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> Hello,
>
> I'm putting together a new class about language and (im)politeness and
> would like to know what readings you think might be worthwhile to look at
> in a course like this. This includes grammatical (im)politeness (like T/V
> forms) as well as metapragmatics and style. Broadly speaking, I'm open to
> things that touch upon language of respect and deference, along with taboo
> or "fighting words," in any setting or space.
>
> My research is on honorifics in Cambodia, so I have lots of sources on
> Southeast Asian languages and person-reference terms. I'm also considering
> some old works (Brown & Levinson, Brown & Gilman) along with the
> Anthropological Quarterly special issue in 2011 (edited by Fleming &
> Lempert). I feel like I might be missing any newer sources. I think social
> media and the internet must have new emergent rules about language and
> (im)politeness.
>
> This course begins next week, so if you could get back to me by this
> **Friday, March 22** as I continue to work on my syllabus this weekend, I
> would appreciate it. (If anyone wants to know the story why this message is
> coming to you late, read my PS below.) Feel free to send any and all
> sources that you think might be useful. But any late sources will still be
> appreciated. I will teach this course again next year, so any lingering or
> late responses will still be helpful as I continue to think about shaping
> the course. Thank you in advance!
>
> All the best,
> Cheryl
>
> P.S. I do apologize for this late request. I wanted to make the request
> earlier, but The Linguist webpage was giving me issues. I was previously
> subscribed to this list using an older email from my time as a PhD student
> that I rarely check. I am now a new professor at Carleton so I wanted to
> re-subscribe using a newer email, which I check daily. However, for some
> reason, Carleton's malware software deemed the Linguist webpage a threat
> and blocked all Carleton laptops from accessing the Linguist website.
> Because of this, I was unable to access it to access the page to
> re-subscribe. I had to make an IT ticket and it took them several days to
> investigate. They finally said the malware software was miscategorizing the
> website (or the website was misconfigured), so they had to put the website
> on the exception list. After finally accessing the Linguist webpage
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> into my spam folder. Before knowing all of this, I tried to send this email
> request twice, but the Linganth moderator kept saying my message was being
> denied because I was a non-member.
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> Hello,
>
> I'm putting together a new class about language and (im)politeness and
> would like to know what readings you think might be worthwhile to look at
> in a course like this. This includes grammatical (im)politeness (like T/V
> forms) as well as metapragmatics and style. Broadly speaking, I'm open to
> things that touch upon language of respect and deference, along with taboo
> or "fighting words," in any setting or space.
>
> My research is on honorifics in Cambodia, so I have lots of sources on
> Southeast Asian languages and person-reference terms. I'm also considering
> some old works (Brown & Levinson, Brown & Gilman) along with the
> Anthropological Quarterly special issue in 2011 (edited by Fleming &
> Lempert). I feel like I might be missing any newer sources. I think social
> media and the internet must have new emergent rules about language and
> (im)politeness.
>
> This course begins next week, so if you could get back to me by this
> **Friday, March 22** as I continue to work on my syllabus this weekend, I
> would appreciate it. (If anyone wants to know the story why this message is
> coming to you late, read my PS below.) Feel free to send any and all
> sources that you think might be useful. But any late sources will still be
> appreciated. I will teach this course again next year, so any lingering or
> late responses will still be helpful as I continue to think about shaping
> the course. Thank you in advance!
>
> All the best,
> Cheryl
>
> P.S. I do apologize for this late request. I wanted to make the request
> earlier, but The Linguist webpage was giving me issues. I was previously
> subscribed to this list using an older email from my time as a PhD student
> that I rarely check. I am now a new professor at Carleton so I wanted to
> re-subscribe using a newer email, which I check daily. However, for some
> reason, my college's malware software deemed the Linguist webpage a threat
> and blocked all Carleton laptops from accessing the Linguist website.
> Because of this, I was unable to access it to access the page to
> re-subscribe. I had to make an IT ticket and it took them several days to
> investigate. They finally said the malware software was miscategorizing the
> website (or the website was misconfigured), so they had to put the website
> on the exception list. After finally accessing the Linguist webpage and
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> --
> Cheryl Yin, PhD (*she/her/hers*)
> Assistant Professor of Anthropology
> Department of Sociology and Anthropology
> Carleton College
> cyin at carleton.edu
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Brandeis University
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