Questions and Politeness: Strategies in Social Interaction - Couverture souple

 
9780521292504: Questions and Politeness: Strategies in Social Interaction
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0521292506 ISBN 13 : 9780521292504
Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 1978

Synopsis

These essays, by anthropologists and anthropological linguists, draw on material from speech communities in three continents to raise fundamental questions about the ways in which interrogative and politeness forms are used in day-to-day social interaction. The authors suggest that interrogative and politeness forms have universal features which make them efficient for certain strategies of interaction. Why should these strategies constantly recur? Here the focus shifts to the consideration of status and power, social roles and social distance. Esther Goody looks at the way in whichy the institutionalization of questioning allows only for speech acts consistent with status differences. Brown and Levinson claim that speech acts are potentially threatening to those being addressed, and that politeness forms have evolved as a mechanism for reducing such threats. They analyse the conditions under which politeness forms will be used and show that their findings are consistent with data drawn from India, Mexico and the US.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

These essays, by anthropologists and anthropological linguists, draw on material from speech communities in three continents to raise fundamental questions about the ways in which interrogative and politeness forms are used in day-to-day social interaction. The authors suggest that interrogative and politeness forms have universal features which make them efficient for certain strategies of interaction. Why should these strategies constantly recur? Here the focus shifts to the consideration of status and power, social roles and social distance. Esther Goody looks at the way in whichy the institutionalization of questioning allows only for speech acts consistent with status differences. Brown and Levinson claim that speech acts are potentially threatening to those being addressed, and that politeness forms have evolved as a mechanism for reducing such threats. They analyse the conditions under which politeness forms will be used and show that their findings are consistent with data drawn from India, Mexico and the US.

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Éditeur
Cambridge University Press
Date d'édition
1978
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0521292506
ISBN 13 
9780521292504
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
334
Éditeur
Goody Esther N.
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Personne responsable
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9780521217491: Questions and Politeness: Strategies in Social Interaction

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ISBN 10 :  0521217490 ISBN 13 :  9780521217491
Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 1978
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