34.144, Books: English Politeness and Class: Mills

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Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2023 17:14:25
From: Ellena Moriarty [ellena.moriarty at cambridge.org]
Subject: English Politeness and Class: Mills

 


Title: English Politeness and Class 
Publication Year: 2022 
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
	   http://www.cambridge.org/linguistics
	

Book URL: https://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/languages-linguistics/semantics-and-pragmatics/english-politeness-and-class?format=PB 


Author: Sara Mills

Paperback: ISBN:  9781107537019 Pages:  Price: U.S. $ 31.99
Paperback: ISBN:  9781107537019 Pages:  Price: U.K. £ 22.99
Paperback: ISBN:  9781107537019 Pages:  Price: Europe EURO 26.83


Abstract:

Politeness plays a vital role in maintaining class differences. In this highly
original account, Sara Mills analyses the interrelationship between class and
linguistic interaction, uncovering the linguistic ideologies behind politeness
in British English. She sheds light on the way politeness and rudeness
interrelate with the marking of class boundaries, and reveals how middle-class
positions in society are marked by people's use of self-deprecation,
indirectness and reserve. Systematically challenging received wisdom about
cross-cultural and inter-cultural differences, she goes beyond the mere
context of the interaction to investigate the social dimension of politeness.
This approach enables readers to analyse other languages in the same way, and
a range of case studies illustrate how ideologies of politeness are employed
and judged.
 



1. Introduction; 2. Traditional approaches to language, culture and
politeness; 3. Traditional approaches to British English politeness; 4.
Politeness and class; 5. Materialist discursive approach to politeness,
culture and norms; 6. Conclusions.
 


Linguistic Field(s): Pragmatics
                     Semantics


Written In: English  (eng)

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