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The volume addresses the enormous imbalance that exists between
academic interest in politeness phenomena when compared to
impoliteness phenomena. Researchers working with Brown and
Levinson's ([1978] 1987) seminal work on politeness rarely focused
explicitly on impoliteness. As a result, only one aspect of
facework/relational work has been studied in detail. Next to this
research desideratum, politeness research is on the move again,
with alternative conceptions of politeness to those of Brown and
Levinson being further developed. In this volume researchers
present, discuss and explore the concept of linguistic
impoliteness, the crucial differences and interconnectedness
between lay understandings of impoliteness and the academic concept
within a theory of facework/relational work, as well as the
exercise of power that is involved when impoliteness occurs. The
authors offer solid discussions of the theoretical issues involved
and draw on data from political interaction, interaction with
legally constituted authorities, workplace interaction in the
factory and the office, code-switching and Internet practices. The
collection offers inspiration for research on impoliteness in many
different research fields, such as (critical) discourse analysis,
conversation analysis, pragmatics and stylistics, as well as
linguistic approaches to studies in conflict and conflict
resolution.
For decades, social perspectives, and even academic studies of
language, have considered cliches as a hackneyed, tired, lazy,
unthinking and uninspiring form of communication. Authored by two
established scholars in the fields of Systemic-Functional
Linguistics and Discourse Studies and Pragmatics, this cutting-edge
book comprehensively explores the perception and use of cliches in
language from these complementary perspectives. It draws data from
a variety of both written and spoken sources, to re-interrogate and
re-imagine the nature, role and usage of cliches, identifying the
innovative and creative ways in which the concepts are utilised in
communication, interaction, and in self-presentation. Observing a
rich, complex layering of usage, the authors deconstruct the many
and varied ways in which cliches operate and are interdependently
constructed; from the role they play in discourse in general, to
their functions as argumentative strategies, as constructs of
social cognition, as politeness strategies, and finally as markers
of identity.
For decades, social perspectives, and even academic studies of
language, have considered cliches as a hackneyed, tired, lazy,
unthinking and uninspiring form of communication. Authored by two
established scholars in the fields of Systemic-Functional
Linguistics and Discourse Studies and Pragmatics, this cutting-edge
book comprehensively explores the perception and use of cliches in
language from these complementary perspectives. It draws data from
a variety of both written and spoken sources, to re-interrogate and
re-imagine the nature, role and usage of cliches, identifying the
innovative and creative ways in which the concepts are utilised in
communication, interaction, and in self-presentation. Observing a
rich, complex layering of usage, the authors deconstruct the many
and varied ways in which cliches operate and are interdependently
constructed; from the role they play in discourse in general, to
their functions as argumentative strategies, as constructs of
social cognition, as politeness strategies, and finally as markers
of identity.
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