Pragmatic and sociolinguistic analyses of im/politeness have usually been dependent on context and cultural frames of reference. This new study approaches the concept from an original perspective, namely situatedness. Although politeness research often concentrates on examining how speeches or discourses themselves are situated with regards to different places and contexts, the focus on just one situation, and various text types within it, can also be of value. Situated Politeness is concerned with disentangling the factors which govern our behaviour within a given social context as well as across them. A range of expanding disciplines, including corpus linguistics, are brought to bear on the topic, and this work will be of interest to a diverse global audience.
1. Situating Politeness Bethan Davies, Michael Haugh and Andrew John Merrison; Part I: Politeness in Institutional Settings; 2. Relativity Rules: Politic Talk in Ethnicised Workplaces Janet Holmes and Meredith Marra; 3. Negative Politeness Features and Impoliteness in Institutional Discourse: A Corpus-Assisted Approach Charlotte Taylor; 4. That's Not Very Polite! Discursive Struggle and Situated Politeness in the Mexican English-language Classroom Gerrard Mugford; 5. Getting Stuff Done: Institutional Requests in UK Higher Education E-mail Andrew John Merrison and Bethan Davies; 6. Expectations and Realities: How to Behave in the Post-Observation Feedback Event Fiona Copland; 7. National Face and National Face-Threatening Acts: Elements of Politeness in Informative Booklets on the European Constitution Elena Magisto; Part II: Politeness in Communities of Practice; 8. Communities of Practice and Politeness Sara Mills; 9. Relational Work in a Sporting Community of Practice Jodie Clark; 10. Do You Want to Do it Yourself Like? Hedging in Irish Traveller and Settled Family Discourse Brian Clancy; 11. Situated (Im)Politeness and the Use of Addressee Honorifics in Japanese Television Dramas Andrew Barke; Part III: Discursive Perspectives on the Situatedness of Politeness; 12. Situated Impoliteness: The Interface between Relational Work and Identity Construction Miriam Locher; 13. Unpacking the Hearer's Interpretation of Situated Politeness Noriko Inagaki; 14. Humour and Face in Getting Acquainted Michael Haugh; 15. Tourist Advertising of Australia: Impolite or Situation-Appropriate? Angela Ardington; 16. Confrontation or Communication? The Negotiation of Face and Power via Email Shin-Chieh Hsieh; Bibliography; Index.
