Date: 08-Jan-2008 From: Simone Gilson <sgilsoncontinuumbooks.com> Subject: Discourse and Politeness: Geyer E-mail this message to a friend
Title: Discourse and Politeness
Subtitle: Ambivalent Face in Japanese
Published: 2008
Publisher: Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd
http://www.continuumbooks.com
'Discourse and Politeness' examines Japanese institutional discourse and attempts to clarify the relationship between politeness, facework and speaker identity. The book seeks to establish an empirically grounded analysis of facework as the basis for evaluating politeness, and describes facework in delicate situations such as disagreement, teasing and talking about troubles, which have rarely been discussed in politeness studies.
Insightful and cutting-edge, this research monograph will be of interest to researchers in discourse analysis, sociolinguistics and Japanese language.
Linguistic Field(s):
Discourse Analysis
Sociolinguistics