Mills / Grainger Directness and Indirectness Across Cultures

1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-1-137-34039-9
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 187 Seiten

Reihe: Social Sciences

This book analyses the complex relationship between directness, indirectness, politeness and impoliteness. Definitions of directness and indirectness are discussed and problematised from a discursive theoretical perspective.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mills, Sara

Grainger, Karen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Cover;1
2;Contents;8
3;Acknowledgements;9
4;Transcription Conventions;10
5;1 Introduction: Language, Culture, (Im)politeness and (In)directness;11
6;2 Theoretical Perspectives on Indirectness;44
7;3 Theoretical Perspectives on Directness;61
8;4 Zimbabwean English and British English: A Case Study of Directness and Indirectness Across Cultures;84
9;5 Situated Directness and Indirectness: Monolingual English Speakers;112
10;6 Linguistic Ideologies: Bilingual Speakers’ Evaluations of Indirectness and Directness;132
11;7 Conclusions;159
12;Notes;169
13;Bibliography;173
14;Index;183

Über Autor(innen)

Karen Grainger is a Principal Lecturer in English Language and Linguistics at Sheffield Hallam University, UK. She researches language use and interaction in institutional, intercultural and electronic contexts. She has published in the areas of health care, intercultural communication and educational sociolinguistics. She is editor-in-chief of the Journal of Politeness Research.

Sara Mills is Research Professor in Linguistics at Sheffield Hallam University, UK. She has published in the areas of feminist linguistics and politeness theory. Her publications include Gender and Politeness (2003), Politeness in East Asia (co-authored, 2011), Language and Sexism (2008), Language Gender and Feminism (co-authored, 2012), and Gender Representation in an International Context (co-authored, 2015).