Geoffrey N. Leech

The Pragmatics of Politeness

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 364
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juli 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 619g
• ISBN-13: 9780195341355
• ISBN-10: 019534135X
• Artikelnr.: 40579674

Autorenporträt

Geoffrey Leech is Emeritus Professor of English Linguistics at Lancaster University, where he has been a faculty member for over 40 years. He has published many books and articles in the fields of English grammar, stylistics, pragmatics, semantics, and corpus linguistics. He was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 1987.

Inhaltsangabe

* Preface
* PART I - Laying the foundations
* 1. Introduction
* 2. Politeness - Viewpoints
* 3. Pragmatics, indirectness and neg-politeness: a basis for
politeness modeling
* 4. Politeness: the model
* PART II - Politeness and impoliteness in practice
* 5. A case study: Apologies
* 6. Requests and other directives
* 7. Other politeness-sensitive speech events
* 8. Politeness and its 'opposites'
* PART III - Further perspectives
* 9. Methods of data collection: empirical pragmatics
* 10. Interlanguage pragmatics and politeness across languages and
cultures
* 11. Politeness and the history of English
* Appendix: Pragmatics, indirectness and neg-politeness: the background
* References
* Index