Chapter 6 ‘First order’ and ‘second order’ politeness: Institutional and intercultural contexts

Review of Mock Politeness in English and Italian: A Corpus-Assisted Metalanguage Analysis

“…A huge advantage of using corpus analysis is that the analyst can test assumptions by using large datasets. In the second wave of politeness research there has been an emphasis on avoiding making generalisations (see Grainger 2011;Kádár 2017). Taylor's research makes an important step in this direction, by drawing out dimensions of variation in terms of evaluation, facework and mismatch structures in mock politeness.…”

Guest Editors’ Introduction Impoliteness in intercultural encounters

“…It is pertinent here to refer to Grainger's (2011) work, which engages in the problematizing of culture: language, nationality, and culture do not have homogenous behaviors and practices, but nonetheless people's interactional behavior relates to their membership in different groups, including ethnic and national. Grainger argues that misunderstanding or misattribution of intention may arise when the interactants do not share the same interpretation frameworks, for example, recipients may misinterpret indirectness as vagueness or rudeness.…”

Of babies and bath water: Is there any place for Austin and Grice in interpersonal pragmatics?

“…However, it is the Foucaultian, post-modern definition which has been influential in the 'second wave' (Grainger, 2011a) politeness studies since about 1992, until recently. In this conception of discourse, there is a tendency to assume that speech act theory, Gricean pragmatics and Brown and Levinson's conception of politeness are passe, unenlightened and of no relevance in contemporary theorising (Mills, 2011).…”

“…Kasper (2006) states that we need to apply conversation analysis to speech act research and calls this a "discursive approach to speech act pragmatics" (page 282). As part of the "third wave" of politeness theory (Grainger 2011a;Culpeper 2011), O'Driscoll (2007 suggests that Brown and Levinson's theory provides an objective empirical tool for the analysis of interaction. Haugh (2007), in pointing out some of the weaknesses of the post-modern approach, advocates an empirically sound and primarily ethnomethodological approach to the analysis of politeness phenomena.…”

“…After re-working the Locher and Watts (2005) analysis, I will also refer to analyses of my own data, which similarly exemplify a sociological/interactional (Grainger, 2011a) approach to discursive data analysis.…”