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.
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