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benjamins.com>Title: Gender, Politeness and Pragmatic Particles in French Series Title: Pragmatics & Beyond New Series 104 Publication Year: 2002 Publisher: John Benjamins http://www.benjamins.com/, http://www.benjamins.nl Book URL: http://www.benjamins.nl/cgi-bin/t_bookview.cgi?bookid=P_bns_104 Author: Kate Beeching, University of the West of England Hardback: ISBN: 158811256X, Pages: x, 251 pp., Price: USD 87.00 Hardback: ISBN: 9027253447, Pages: x, 251 pp., Price: EUR 87.00 Abstract: This study aims to investigate politeness in womens and mens speech, with a particular focus on the use of c'est-�-dire, enfin, hein and quoi in contemporary spoken French. Politeness is defined as going beyond the notion of the face-threatening act, englobing both everyday ideas of politeness and the creation of sociability in face-to-face interaction. The pragmatic particles studied are demonstrated to serve both psycholinguistic and sociolinguistic purposes: they lubricate reformulation and contribute to both sociability and social indexation. The study, which combines qualitative and quantitative analysis, is based on a corpus of spontaneous spoken French, comprising 155,000 words, 95 interviews and subjects ranging in age from 7 to 88 years. The sample contains speakers from a broader range of educational backgrounds than is often the case: a butcher, a video-salesman and a toiletteur canin rub shoulders with counter assistants, teachers and doctors. Lingfield(s): Discourse Analysis Pragmatics Sociolinguistics Subject Language(s): French (Language Code: FRN) Written In: English (Language Code: ENG)Mail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue