Metapragmatics of Attentiveness: A Study in Interpersonal and Cross-Cultural Pragmatics - Couverture rigide

Fukushima, Saeko

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1781797242 ISBN 13 : 9781781797242

Editeur : Equinox Publishing Ltd, 2020

Synopsis

This book examines attentiveness, which is briefly defined as a demonstrator's pre-emptive responses to a recipient's verbal or non-verbal cues or situations surrounding a recipient and a demonstrator, which takes the form of offering. It elucidates what attentiveness is, and addresses the importance of attentiveness in im/politeness research. It also suggests the importance of taking an interdisciplinary perspective in im/politeness research, the importance of non-linguistically manifested politeness and the heart perspective. Evaluation by a recipient of attentiveness is considered since recent research suggests that im/politeness resides in evaluation. Thus, both demonstration and evaluation of attentiveness are investigated in the book. Attentiveness may be demonstrated or evaluated differently within different cultures. Generation can be considered as one of the sub-groups of culture. Therefore, cross-cultural and cross-generational comparisons on demonstration and evaluation of attentiveness are included. Although some differences in demonstration or evaluation of attentiveness are found cross-culturally, similarities outweigh differences. This suggests that attentiveness, which is thought to be a virtue in Japanese culture, is not unique to Japanese culture, and that attentiveness is an important interpersonal notion elsewhere, too. It is also shown that attentiveness is one of the constituents of politeness, which indicates that attentiveness is closely related to politeness.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Saeko Fukushima is Professor in the Department of English at Tsuru University in Japan. She is the author of Requests and Culture: Politeness in British English and Japanese (Peter Lang 2000)

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Equinox Publishing Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2020
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1781797242
• ISBN 13: 9781781797242
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 230
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible