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The Pragmatics of Politeness (Hardcover)
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The Pragmatics of Politeness (Hardcover)
Series: Oxford Studies in Sociolinguistics
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This readable book presents a new general theoretical understanding
of politeness. It offers an account of a wide range of politeness
phenomena in English, illustrated by hundreds of examples of actual
language use taken largely from authentic British and American
sources. Building on his earlier pioneering work on politeness,
Geoffrey Leech takes a pragmatic approach that is based on the
controversial notion that politeness is communicative altruism.
Leech's 1983 book, Principles of Pragmatics, introduced the now
widely-accepted distinction between pragmalinguistic and
sociopragmatic aspects of politeness; this book returns to the
pragmalinguistic side, somewhat neglected in recent work. Drawing
on neo-Gricean thinking, Leech rejects the prevalent view that it
is impossible to apply the terms 'polite' or 'impolite' to
linguistic phenomena. Leech covers all major speech acts that are
either positively or negatively associated with politeness, such as
requests, apologies, compliments, offers, criticisms, good wishes,
condolences, congratulations, agreement, and disagreement.
Additional chapters deal with impoliteness and the related
phenomena of irony ("mock politeness") and banter ("mock
impoliteness"), and with the role of politeness in the learning of
English as a second language. A final chapter takes a fascinating
look at more than a thousand years of history of politeness in the
English language.
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