Beyond the micro-level in politeness research

Bibliographic Data

ID5794755
AuthorsMarina Terkourafi (0000-0002-4400-9336, corresponding author)
Year2005
Volume1
Issue2
Pages237-262
Publication date2005-07-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Politeness Research (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1612-5681 • E-ISSN: 1613-4877
PublisherDe Gruyter Mouton (PUBLISHER • DE)
DOI10.1515/jplr.2005.1.2.237
OpenAlexW1980777647
LanguageEN
Citations received197
References cited30

Politeness research to date has generally adopted one of two views: the "traditional" view based on the dual premises of Grice's Co-operative Principle and speech act theory (Lakoff 1973, Brown and Levinson 1987 [1978], Leech 1983), or the "post-modern" view, which rejects these premises and substitutes them by an emphasis on participants' own perceptions of politeness (politeness1) and on the discursive struggle over politeness (Eelen 2001, Mills 2003, Watts 2003). Contrasting these two views, this article considers not only their points of disagreement, but, crucially, points where the two views coincide, bringing to light their common underlying assumptions. It then goes on to show how, departing from these common assumptions, a third direction for politeness studies, the "frame-based" view, is possible. Following an outline of the frame-based view, it is suggested that this fits in with the traditional and the post-modern views in a three-layered schema addressing politeness phenomena at different levels of granularity

Politeness maxims · Politeness Theory · Schema (genetic algorithms · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies · Multilingual Education and Policy

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