Face and (Im)politeness

O’Driscoll, Jim

doi:10.1057/978-1-137-37508-7_5

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“…Our study bears relevance for broader research on "face" as well. We agree with scholars like Bargiela-Chiappini (2003); Haugh and Hinze (2003); Sifianou (2011) andO'Driscoll (2017) who argued that "face" -and "face"-related expressions in particular -should be studied for its own sake.…”

Section: Review Of Literaturesupporting

confidence: 87%

Chinese “face”-related expressions in Peking and Teochew Opera scripts

Chen,

House,

Kádár

2024

JHP

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This paper presents a historical contrastive pragmatic study of the use of Chinese “face”-related expressions in Peking and Teochew Opera scripts. The rationale behind this investigation is that contemporary Mandarin and the Minnan Dialect operate with very different inventories of “face”-related expressions, and it is worth considering whether this difference also applies to historical language use, and, if so, how. Studying this matter is particularly relevant for historical pragmatic research because “face”-related expressions have been under-represented in the field. Our study is based on a corpus of nineteen Peking Opera scripts and a comparable corpus of nineteen Teochew Opera scripts, dating from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The results of our analysis show that the historical Mandarin corpus operates with a duality of the “face”-related expressions lian and mian, in a similar way to modern Mandarin, even though we also found differences between the ways in which these expressions were used in former times and at present. Yet such differences are eclipsed if we contrast historical Mandarin with the Teochew scripts where we found a very different “face” duality than in Mandarin, namely a duality of yan and mian. This duality also differs from what one can witness in present-day Minnan.

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Section: Review Of Literaturesupporting

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Chinese “face”-related expressions in Peking and Teochew Opera scripts

Chen,

House,

Kádár

2024

JHP

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“…Since a speaker and addressee cooperate to maintain each other's face, speech acts that threaten the speaker's face also potentially threaten the addressee's face (Culpeper, 2011;Culpeper and Terkourafi, 2017;O'Driscoll, 2017). Face threatening acts may cause the feelings of embarrassment, shame and/or guilt, whereas acts enhancing face qualities may lead to boosted self-esteem and pride (Sifianou and Tzanne, 2021).…”

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Facework display of a political leader: Linguo-rhetoric approach (the case study of Julia Gillard's speech on misogyny)

Lyashuk

2024

Forum Linguist. Stud.

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This article focuses on the cognitive rhetoric features of the politician’s facework that incorporate face threatening acts, communicative strategies, and discursive functions in a political speech. The data were taken from the speech on misogyny delivered in 2012 by the 27th Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard. Throughout the article we disclose the interaction of the politician’s face, politeness, and power in the institutional discourse. Julia Gillard does her facework actively engaged into the misogyny argument which provides a persuasive ground to confront the opponent’s face through reinforced employment of both positive and negative face threatening acts. The findings suggest that doing facework through rhetorical practices Gillard signals her identity in three faces: a political leader, a female politician and her individual social self-image of a woman and daughter. Gillard’s face claims are closely bound with her sense of sociality rights and obligations. This entails her relational and collective self-construal prevail over her individual face. The symbolic power obliges Gillard to protect her collective self-credibility and makes the ground for undermining the self-worth of the opponent in a rather straightforward manner. The politeness Gillard exercises is mainly prescribed by the institutional goal and status which directly impact the use of the linguistic means employed by the politician.

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“…This is in line with Brown and Levinson's interpretation of "face" arises thanks to the use of this term introduced in the 1980s and 1990s, which at the time was pioneering in the thinking of linguists and pragmatists. In fact, their theory of politeness had a significant impact, and as of the writing of this article, the most commonly used way of understanding the concept of face is still tied to the theoretical framework they developed (O'Driscoll, 2017).…”

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A Map of Students' Language Impoliteness: A Phenomenological Study

Kartini,

Anwar,

Muliastuti

2024

JOLLT

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Recently, researchers have witnessed an alarming phenomenon related to the violation of language politeness among students. This study aims to describe the map of students' language impoliteness in Indonesia. The research data is in the form of students' speech. The focus of this research is unmannerly speech which is studied by phenomenological study by using Culpeper's impoliteness strategy. The phenomenological steps taken are observation of the phenomenon of impoliteness, formulating problems, collecting data, analyzing data, and preparing reports. The research findings show that students use three politeness violation strategies, namely direct politeness violation, positive politeness violation, and negative politeness violation. The phenomenon found is the strategy of impoliteness by using four forms, namely delivering impolite speech directly, speech uttered based on consideration of the interlocutor, considering the location, and the situation of the conversation between the speaker and the interlocutor. This research can contribute to education, especially for teachers to always educate and guide students to speak politely. With a better understanding of the phenomenon of violations of students' language politeness, it is hoped that appropriate preventive and intervention measures can be taken to minimize the forms of language impoliteness that can be carried out by a teacher or parent.

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Face and (Im)politeness

Cited by 48 publications

References 72 publications

Chinese “face”-related expressions in Peking and Teochew Opera scripts

Chinese “face”-related expressions in Peking and Teochew Opera scripts

Facework display of a political leader: Linguo-rhetoric approach (the case study of Julia Gillard's speech on misogyny)

A Map of Students' Language Impoliteness: A Phenomenological Study

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