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Date: 27-Oct-2005
From: Paul Peranteau < paul at benjamins.com >
Subject: Broadening the Horizon of Linguistic Politeness: Lakoff, Ide
(Eds) 

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Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2005 14:50:25
From: Paul Peranteau < paul at benjamins.com >
Subject: Broadening the Horizon of Linguistic Politeness: Lakoff, Ide (Eds) 

Title: Broadening the Horizon of Linguistic Politeness 
Series Title: Pragmatics & Beyond New Series 139  

Publication Year: 2005 
Publisher: John Benjamins
	   http://www.benjamins.com/

Book URL: http://www.benjamins.com/cgi-bin/t_bookview.cgi?bookid=P%26bns%20139 

Editor: Robin Tolmach Lakoff, University of California, Berkeley
Editor: Sachiko Ide, Japan Women's University

Hardback: ISBN: 902725382X Pages: xii, 342 Price: U.S. $ 144.00
Hardback: ISBN: 902725382X Pages: xii, 342 Price: Europe EURO 120.00

Abstract:

This collection of 19 papers celebrates the coming of age of the field of
politeness studies, now in its 30th year. It begins with an investigation
of the meaning of politeness, especially linguistic politeness, and
presents a short history of the field of linguistic politeness studies,
showing how such studies go beyond the boundaries of conventional
linguistic work, incorporating, as they do, non-language insights. The
emphasis of the volume is on non-Western languages and the ways linguistic
politeness is achieved with them. Many, if not most, studies have focused
on Western languages, but the languages highlighted here show new and
different aspects of the phenomena.

The purpose of linguistic politeness is to aid in successful communication
throughout the world, and this volume offers a balance of geographical
distribution not found elsewhere, including Japanese, Thai, and Chinese, as
well as Greek, Swedish and Spanish. It covers such theoretical topics as
face, wakimae, social levels, gender-related differences in language usage,
directness and indirectness, and intercultural perspectives. 

Table of contents

Acknowledgments  ix 

Foreword  xi-xii  

Introduction: Broadening the horizon of linguistic politeness 
Robin T. Lakoff and Sachiko Ide 1-20  

Part I. General overviews: The plenary papers   

Civility and its discontents: Or, getting in your face 
Robin T. Lakoff 23-43  

How and why honorifics can signify dignity and elegance: The indexicality
and reflexivity of linguistic rituals 
Sachiko Ide 45-64  

Whither politeness 
Bruce Fraser 65-83  

Part II. The theoretical perspective   

Yoroshiku onegaishimasu: Routine practice of the routine formula in Japanese 
Makiko Takekuro 87-97  

An argument for a frame-based approach to politeness: Evidence from the use
of the imperative in Cypriot Greek 
Marina Terkourafi 99-116  

The significance of 'face' and politeness in social interaction as revealed
through Thai 'face' idioms 
Margaret Ukosakul 117-125  

Part III. The descriptive perspective   

Face threatening acts, primary face threatening acts, and the management of
discourse: Australian English and speakers of Asian Englishes 
Christopher J. Conlan 129-144  

Politeness in Thai computer-mediated communication 
Krisadawan Hongladarom and Soraj Hongladarom 145-162  

Polite diminutives in Spanish: A matter of size? 
Martha Mendoza 163-173  

Indirectness as a politeness strategy of Thai speakers 
Deeyu Srinarawat 175-193  

Part IV. The comparative perspective   

Japanese honorifics as a marker of sociocultural identity: A view from
non-western perspectives 
Megumi Yoshida and Chikako Sakurai 197-215  

Directness as a source of misunderstanding: The case of requests and
suggestions 
Alexandra Kallia 217-234  

Forms of address in Irish and Swedish 
Anders Ahlqvist 235-244  

Women, men and polite requests: English and Greek 
Ekaterini Kouletaki 245-274  

Privacy: An intercultural perspective 
Mark Lê 275-282  

Selection of linguistic forms for requests and offers: Comparison between
English and Chinese 
Masako Tsuzuki, Kazuhiro Takahashi, Cynthia Patschke and Qin Zhang 283-298  

Part V. The historical perspective   

Japanese pronouns of address: Their behavior and maintenance over time 
Andrew Barke and Satoshi Uehara 301-313  

An aspect of the origins and development of linguistic politeness in Thai 
Wilaiwan Khanittanan 315-335 

Index  337-342 

Linguistic Field(s): Discourse Analysis
                     Pragmatics
                     Sociolinguistics

Subject Language(s): Chinese, Mandarin (cmn)
                     English (eng)
                     Gaelic, Irish (gle)
                     Greek (ell)
                     Japanese (jpn)
                     Spanish (spa)
                     Swedish (swe)
                     Thai (tha)

Written In: English  (eng)

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