L’impolitesse en interaction
While admetting the general principle of politeness as assimilated to face-work, we think that we have to carry out some improvements to Brown and Levinson’s model in order to make it more efficient, such as: admitting the opposite notion of “Face flattering Acts” alongside the notion of Face Threat...
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| Language: | English |
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Université Jean Moulin - Lyon 3
2010-09-01
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| Series: | Lexis: Journal in English Lexicology |
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| Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/lexis/796 |
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| Summary: | While admetting the general principle of politeness as assimilated to face-work, we think that we have to carry out some improvements to Brown and Levinson’s model in order to make it more efficient, such as: admitting the opposite notion of “Face flattering Acts” alongside the notion of Face Threatening Acts; examining more thoroughly the question of impoliteness; introducing into the system some categories in addition to the couple politeness/impoliteness, such as “overpoliteness”, “non-politeness” and “polirudeness”. These categories cannot be defined without simultaneously taking into account the content of the utterance, its wording, and the normative expectations in force in the given situation. They have to be confronted to numerous excerpts of natural data. In this study, the data will be borrowed from two different situations of interaction: political TV debates and exchanges in some educational settings. |
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| ISSN: | 1951-6215 |