Chapter 4 “No, like proper north”: Re-drawing boundaries in an emergent community of practice

Clark, Jodie

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“…A notion of banter is clearly in force throughout this interaction and as Mills (2003: 124) states: "banter of mock impoliteness might allow someone to utter something closer to their true feelings in an exaggerated form at the same time as posing it in a manner where it will be interpreted on the surface at least as non-serious" (see also Clark 2011). Naomi, Matthias and Cecilia all refer to banter in their interpretations, but Dorothy interprets what they said in a serious way, rather than as a joke.…”

Section: Interviewing Participants and Eliciting Evaluations Of The Ementioning

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A discursive approach to the analysis of politeness data

Bom¹,

Mills²

2015

Journal of Politeness Research

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This paper aims to provide an exemplification of the way that the discursive approach can work in relation to the analysis of data. As such, it argues for the validity of the discursive approach to politeness. Because the discursive approach has been seen as difficult to employ in the analysis of data, in recent years, there has been a proliferation of research returning to Brown and Levinson's approach. Although discursive approaches to politeness have functioned successfully as a critique of Brown and Levinson's work, they are not seen as a means of analyzing politeness and impoliteness in their own right. By tracing the development of the discursive approach to politeness, and by addressing the critiques that there have been, we argue that although the critical role of the discursive approach is paramount to the development of the field, discursive approaches are more than just a critique, and should be seen as constituting an approach to the analysis of politeness as well. As a case in point, we illustrate what a discursive approach consists of through analyzing an intercultural interaction between a group of close friends of Dutch and Italian origin.

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Section: Interviewing Participants and Eliciting Evaluations Of The Ementioning

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A discursive approach to the analysis of politeness data

Bom¹,

Mills²

2015

Journal of Politeness Research

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“…Eelen's distinction between politeness1 and politeness2 is most commonly used to represent a shift in methodology (from 'top-down' theoretical models to 'bottom up' empirical investigations of lay people conceptualisations of social norms (Clark, 2011). Bousfield and Culpeper (2008) point out the traditional approaches are top-down constructs as they advocate a priori intentions which the hearer should just re-discover whereas the discursive approaches (Watts 2003, Mills, 2003Linguistic Politeness Research Group, 2011) are bottom-up models because they are more inclined to treat intentions as post-facto phenomena.…”

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“…Assuming the normative changing evaluations of polite behaviour made by lay people in interaction, culture in the discursive approach is mainly addressed through an examination of variability in interactants' evaluations of politeness across different Communities of Practice and other groups within a specific society (Haugh, 2007). Due to the fact that interactants do not always clearly reveal or discuss evaluations of (im)politeness in interaction, theorists have also examined the implicit and post-hoc evaluations of (im)politeness made by interlocutors (Watts, 2003;Locher, 2004Locher, , 2006Locher and Watts, 2005;Culpeper, 2008;2011a). This indicates that the bottom-up discursive approach in analysing culture makes the participants the analysts of their own communications, thus make the analysts only represent the participants' interpretations of the interaction (Haugh, 2007).…”

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Different Perspectives of Approaching the Concept of Culture within Politeness Field

Al-Khawaldeh¹

2015

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“…It contributes to work that highlights the "gate-keeping" function of politeness in society (Terkourafi 2011) or in comBrought to you by | Georgetown University Authenticated Download Date | 5/28/15 1:17 PM munities of practice (Mills 2003;Clark 2011). While this gate-keeping function is often explained in terms of how politeness maintains certain social hierarchies, I explore an additional dimension of the process.…”

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“…(Davies 2005: 571) My position, explained in detail in Clark (2011), is that politeness research can offer nuanced explanations of how hierarchical structures are maintained within communities of practice. In this article I explore the gate-keeping role of politeness in more detail.…”

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‘Maybe she just hasn’t matured yet’: Politeness, gate-keeping and the maintenance of status quo in a community of practice

Clark

2013

Journal of Politeness Research

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Maybe she just hasn't matured yet': Politeness, gate-keeping and the maintenance of status quo in a community of practice Abstract: Politeness research has much to offer work that explores the complexities of gate-keeping in a community of practice. In this article I draw upon principles and terminology from politeness research to explore the tension that arises when members of a particular community of practice (a university field hockey team) who are morally opposed to homosexuality are confronted with the fact that some of their teammates are openly gay. This line of investigation relies upon a redefinition of politeness2: I define politeness2 as the moral compulsion to respect the boundaries around different levels of social structure, which include (but are not limited to) sets of attitudes, perspectives and priorities. In the hockey players' community of practice, two moral priorities are in conflict: an aversion to homosexuality on the one hand, and a desire for a friendly, socially inclusive club on the other. I investigate the various evaluative resources participants draw upon/produce in this community, which include evaluation schemes based upon the labels "rude" and "im/mature". I claim that the label "im/mature" -and concepts related to this label -function in this community as a means of concealing the conflict between the two moral priorities and maintaining a commitment to both.

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Chapter 4 “No, like proper north”: Re-drawing boundaries in an emergent community of practice

Cited by 20 publications

References 8 publications

A discursive approach to the analysis of politeness data

A discursive approach to the analysis of politeness data

Different Perspectives of Approaching the Concept of Culture within Politeness Field

‘Maybe she just hasn’t matured yet’: Politeness, gate-keeping and the maintenance of status quo in a community of practice

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