Situated Politeness

Michael Haugh is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Languages and Linguistics at Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia. Bethan L. Davies is a Lecturer on Linguistics and Phonetics at the University of Leeds, UK. Andrew John Merrison is a Lecturer in the English Language and Linguistics Department at York St. John University, UK.

For those interested in politeness - which surely includes most of us - this book is essential reading. Covering a range of theoretical approaches, settings, languages and cultures, Situated Politeness explores some of the key issues in current im/politeness research by some of the leading scholars in the field. The book adopts a new three-way division of politeness into institutional, interpersonal and public settings, including a variety of contexts and cultures, such as New Zealand workplaces, classrooms in Mexico a university hockey club in Sheffield, Japanese television drama, and a national advertising campaign in Australia. Particularly significant, Situated Politeness is primarily concerned not only with the local negotiation of both politeness and impoliteness but how these are, crucially, played out against a wider backdrop of social and cultural practices and beliefs. Not least, the style is highly accessible, and the various chapters offer a wide range of relevant and fascinating data.

• 1. Situating politeness, Michael Haugh, Bethan Davies, and Andrew John Merrison Part I. Politeness in Institutional Settings 2. Relativity rules: politic talk in ethnicized workplaces, Janet Holmes and Meredith Marra 3. That's not very polite! Discursive struggle and situated politeness in the Mexican English-language classroom, Gerrard Mugford 4. Communities of practice and politeness, Sara Mills 5. Relational work in a sporting community of practice, Jodie Clark Part II. Politeness in Interpersonal Settings 6. Situated functions of addressee honorifics in Japanese television drama, Andrew Barke 7. Do you want to do it yourself like? Hedging in Irish traveller and settled family discourse, Brian Clancy8. Unpacking the hearer's interpretation of situated politeness, Noriko Inagaki 9. Humour, im/politeness and face in getting acquainted, Michael Haugh Part III. Politeness in Public Settings 10. Situated impoliteness: the interface between relational work and identity construction, Miriam Locher 11. Negative politeness features and impoliteness in institutional discourse: a corpus-assisted approach, Charlotte Taylor 12. National face and national face threatening acts: politeness and the European Constitution, Elena Magistro13. Tourist advertising of Australia: impolite or situation-appropriate? Or a uniquely Aussie invite lost intranslation, Angela Ardington 14. Epilogue, Bethan Davies, Andrew John Merrison and Michael Haugh Bibliography Index