Politeness in language
Subtitle: studies in its history, theory, and practice
By: with a new introduction by Richard J. Watts ; edited by Richard J. Watts, Sachiko Ide, Konrad Ehlich.
Contributors: Watts, Richard J.; Ide, Sachiko, 1939-; Ehlich, Konrad, 1942-
Edition: 2nd rev. and expanded ed.
Publisher: Mouton de Gruyter
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 404
Subjects: Politeness (Linguistics)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: 1. Intracultural tact versus intercultural tact / Richard W. Janney and Horst Arndt; title: 2. Linguistic politeness and politic verbal behaviour: reconsidering claims for universality / Richard J. Watts; title: 3. On the historicity of politeness / Konrad Ehlich; title: 4. Literary texts and diachronic aspects of politeness / Roger D. Sell; title: 5. Politeness in linguistic research / Gudrun Held; title: 6. Traditional and modern views: the social constitution and power of politeness / Konrad T. Werkhofer; title: 7. Secondhand politeness / Annelie Knapp-Potthoff; title: 8. Between matter-of-factness and politeness / Judith Stalpers; title: 9. Children's understanding of white lies / Sbine Walper and Renate Valtin; title: 10. The metapragmatics of politeness in Israeli society / Shoshana Blum-Kulka; title: 11. The concept of politeness: an empirical study of American English and Japanese / Sachiko Ide, Berverly Hill, Yukiko M. Carnes, Tsunao Ogino, and Akiko Kawasaki; title: 12. Linguistic etiquette in Japanese society / Florian Coulmas; title: 13. Politeness in Thai / Manfred Kummer.