Appropriate behaviour across varieties of English

Schneider, Klaus P.

doi:10.1016/j.pragma.2011.09.015

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“…La misma Mills (2011: 48-49), de hecho, lo reconoce de este modo más adelante, cuando escribe que "it is possible to make generalisations about politeness across language groups", y Terkourafi (2005: 245), por su parte, critica la "pesimista" postura postmoderna, dado que "one may note that prediction would seem to be constitutive of any theory", de manera que "the aim is to draw on situations experienced to make predictions about situations not (yet) experienced". De manera semejante se expresa Schneider (2012Schneider ( : 1024Schneider ( -1025, quien critica expresamente a Watts (2003) por su postura acerca de la imposibilidad de hallar principios relativos a la percepción de lo (des)cortés por parte de los hablantes y, en sentido contrario, afirma que es posible "to determine intersubjectively what is considered appropriate in a given social situation in a particular community". Refirámonos por último, dentro de esta línea crítica, a Ogiermann (2009: 1), quien describe la evolución de los estudios sobre la cortesía hacia los enfoques postmodernos como un tránsito desde la pragmática hacia la teoría social, en el que cada vez se enfatiza más el carácter impredecible de lo (des)cortés.…”

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“…Señalemos que, desde este punto de referencia, dejaremos al margen la distinción entre first order politeness y second order politeness sobre la que se viene insistiendo desde el enfoque postmoderno (Watts, 2003), entre otras cosas porque dista de ser evidente que los trabajos sobre la (des)cortesía hayan de estar necesariamente anclados junto a una u otra orilla. Así lo señala, por ejemplo, Schneider (2012Schneider ( : 1023, cuando escribe que "a reconciliation of these two positions does, however, seem possible". De hecho, la óptima comprensión del fenómeno vendrá, probablemente, de una perspectiva que combine un planteamiento teórico potente con una puesta en pie analítica que se halle enraizada en datos reales, en las percepciones de los hablantes.…”

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“…Ahora bien, ese interés por la comprensión de la vertiente intercultural de la (des)cortesía solo recientemente se ha visto acompañado por iniciativas encaminadas a la investigación del modo en que la variación en el comportamiento de este fenómeno toma cuerpo también en el plano intracultural e intralingüístico (como Schneider y Barron, eds., 2008, Schneider, 2012o Cestero y Albelda, 2012). Ciertamente, dicha dimensión adicional en el estudio de la (des)cortesía reviste un enorme interés, dado que, como señalan Mills (2011: 38) o Kádár y Haugh (2013: 45-47), las distintas sociedades (las distintas culturas, los distintos entornos culturales, etc.)…”

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Bases teóricas para un estudio transcultural y variacionista de la (des)cortesía

García¹

2016

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Within the framework of the continuous growth of research on (im)politeness in recent decades, this paper presents a theoretical discussion that aims to lay the groundwork for the research of this phenomenon from a crosscultural and variational approach. To this end, several key issues are discussed, namely: a) the role of conventional and contextual elements in the shaping of (im)politeness; b) the impact that cultural, social and situational factors have; c) the way in which the conceptualization of (im) politeness as a combination of strategies and mechanisms can clarify its understanding; and d) the theoretical framework, regarding theories about (im)politeness, more suitable for our analysis.KEYWORDS: (im)politeness, cross-cultural analysis, variational analysis. ResumenEn el marco del imparable crecimiento de las investigaciones sobre la (des)cortesía durante las últimas décadas, este trabajo presenta una discusión teórica que se propone sentar las bases para la investigación de tal fenómeno desde un enfoque transcultural y variacionista. Con este fin, se discuten a) el papel de lo convencional y lo contextual en la configuración de la (des) cortesía, b) la incidencia de los factores de naturaleza cultural, social y situacional, c) el modo en que la conceptualización de lo (des)cortés como una conjunción de estrategias y mecanismos puede esclarecer su comprensión, y d) el marco teórico, en lo que a las teorías sobre la (des) cortesía respecta, más adecuado para el análisis.PALABRAS CLAVE: (des)cortesía, análi-sis transcultural, análisis variacionista.Para citar este artículo / To cite this article : Fernández García, Francisco (2016). Bases teóricas para un estudio transcultural y variacionista de la (des)cortesía. ELUA, 30: 79-100.

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2016

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“…Negotiability is enhanced, and it is stated that politeness values cannot be predicted but have to be analysed in context. Between the extremes, a new notion of "appropriateness" has been added, to situate politeness in its wider context of culture (see Watts 2003;Locher and Watts 2005;Schneider 2012). …”

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Twenty years of historical pragmatics

Taavitsainen

Jucker

2015

JHP

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This paper provides an outline of the changes in linguistics that gave rise to historical pragmatics in the 1990s and that have shaped its development over the twenty years of its existence. These changes have affected virtually all aspects of linguistic analyses: the nature of the data, the research questions, the methods and tools that are being used for the analysis, as well as the nature of the generalizations and findings that result from these investigations. We deal with the changes in terms of shifts in thought styles and discuss seven different turns: the pragmatic turn, the socio-cultural turn, the dispersive turn, the empirical turn, the digital turn, the discursive turn and the diachronic turn. We also deal with some long-standing, recent or emerging interfaces where historical pragmatics interacts with other disciplines and we discuss some future challenges, such as the multimodality and fluidity of communication and the problem of combining big data with pragmatic micro analyses. This article provides an outline of the changes in linguistics that gave rise to historical pragmatics in the 1990s and that have shaped its development in the twenty years of its existence. These changes have affected virtually all aspects of linguistic analyses: the nature of the data, the research questions, the methods and tools that are being used for the analysis as well as the nature of the generalizations and findings that result from these investigations. We deal with the changes in terms of shifts in thought styles and discuss seven different turns: the pragmatic turn, the socio-cultural turn, the dispersive turn, the empirical turn, the digital turn, the discursive turn and the diachronic turn. We also deal with some long-standing, recent or emerging interfaces where historical pragmatics interacts with other disciplines and we discuss some future challenges such as the multimodality and fluidity of communication and the problem of combining big data with pragmatic micro analyses.

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“…Here we are exploring the situational appropriateness and/or inappropriateness of the various behaviours of the interactants in the courtroom data upon which this special issue focusses. We follow Schneider (2012) who draws a parallel between the distinctions of appropriateness and inappropriateness with Watts ' (2005) distinction between politic and non-politic. In this sense, what we define as inappropriate is behaviour that is always marked.…”

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Courtroom data and politeness research: A case for neo-Peircean semiotics in interpersonal pragmatics

Wilson

Price

2018

Journal of Politeness Research

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Abstract:In this article we take a neo-Peircean semiotic approach to analyzing an interaction in which a routine bail hearing between a defendant and a judge goes awry. Neo-Peircean semiotics is steadily gaining recognition within linguistics for providing a new perspective on meaning. One neo-Peircean approach, referred to as Relationship Thinking (Enfield 2009(Enfield , 2013, has the potential to be influential for politeness research and linguistic pragmatics generally. In this article, we explore how the concept of relationship can be used to explore meaning on two dimensions: residential and representational (Kockelman 2006a(Kockelman , 2006b. It is our contention that both of these dimensions are crucial to developing an understanding of what happens in the courtroom data on which this special issue focusses. We begin by providing a detailed overview of neoPeircean semiotics in order to demonstrate its utility for researchers from different disciplines. We then show how a neo-Peircean analytical approach can illuminate elements of data that may not be accounted for in other analyses. This is as a consequence of the neo-Peircean framework's scope and its capacity for coping with a range of interactionally significant phenomena, from individual linguistic tokens to institutional norms. In our analysis of the data at the heart of this special issue, the Penelope Soto case, we show that problems can arise when interactants have different understandings of what is a sign and what is an interpretant (Peirce 1955). We make the case that it is a misunderstanding at this level (specifically the interpretations of the word "value") that is ultimately what causes the interaction to conclude in the way that it does. Ultimately, we suggest that a neo-Peircean approach to the study of in/appropriate behaviour can facilitate links between the traditional (and sometimes disparate) methods of analysis used in politeness research.

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Appropriate behaviour across varieties of English

Cited by 120 publications

References 24 publications

Bases teóricas para un estudio transcultural y variacionista de la (des)cortesía

Bases teóricas para un estudio transcultural y variacionista de la (des)cortesía

Twenty years of historical pragmatics

Courtroom data and politeness research: A case for neo-Peircean semiotics in interpersonal pragmatics

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