Interdisciplinary perspectives on im/politeness

by Defibaugh, Staci Terkourafi, Marina

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Full title :Interdisciplinary perspectives on im/politeness / edited by Marina Terkourafi, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign ; Editorial assistance, Staci Defibaugh, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Summary

Being polite is an effective way to facilitate interpersonal communication. One of the key issues is how the human cognitive system perceives verbal politeness and deals with the cases in which politeness principles are violated. By using event-related potentials (ERPs), we aim to address the nature of real time processing of disrespectful reference in Mandarin utterance interpretation. The consistency between the social status of the communicating partners and the use of second-person pronoun was manipulated as a testing case. Participants read utterances in which the social status of the communicating partners was either consistent with the pronoun (e.g. respectful) or violated the pronoun (e.g. disrespectful), while undergoing the recording of electrophysiological activity on the scalp. Earlier research has demonstrated that semantic, syntactic and inferential pragmatic processing could be manifested in different ERP effects. Our ERP findings demonstrated that successful handling of disrespectful address may engage semantic-pragmatic mechanisms (as reflected by a N400 and late negativity effect), rather than a mechanism dealing with grammatical error. Moreover, the ERP responses were modulated by individual differences in tolerance to the disrespectful usage, gender, and social interactive ability. These ERP indices of real time processing of disrespectful utterances are consistent with the "conventionalization view" in im/politeness theory (Culpeper 2011; Terkourafi 2002, 2003, 2005)

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2015

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):John Benjamins Publishing Company
Place of Publication:Amsterdam
Language:eng
Publication Date:2015

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Description:1 online resource

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ISBN:9789027268525, 9027268525, 9027205329, 9789027205322
oclc:ocn905759398
LC Classification:P299.H66
Dewey Decimal:306.44

Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Im/politeness -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Table of contents -- Introduction. Bridging theory and practice in im/politenessresearch -- Part I. Self-reporting Studies -- Introduction to Part I -- References -- Social deixis in motion -- 1. Address terms: Social and pragmatic aspects of use -- 2. Evolving address paradigms -- 2.1 Russian -- 2.2 Mandarin Chinese -- 2.3 The failure of COMRADE as a social deictic -- 2.4 Interim summary -- 3. An empirical study of current means of formal address in Mandarin Chinese and Russian -- 3.1 Elicited production task (Russian, Mandarin Chinese) -- 3.2 Results -- 3.2.1 Russian -- 3.2.2 Mandarin Chinese -- 3.3 Interim discussion -- 3.4 Lexical and deictic functions of the token comrade: An acceptability judgment task and a follow-up questionnaire -- 3.5 Acceptability judgment task (Russian): Results -- 3.6 Follow up questionnaire (Mandarin Chinese): Results -- 4. Discussion -- 5. Conclusion -- Etymological dictionaries of Russian: -- Appendix 1 -- Appendix 2 -- The M-word -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Theoretical background -- 2.1 The Banter principle and proposed extensions -- 2.2 Types of implicatur…

Subjects

Communication interpersonnelle Focus (Linguistique) Formules de politesse Höflichkeit Interdisciplinarité en éducation Interdisciplinary approach in education Interpersonal communication Interpersonal relations Linguistik Perspective (Linguistics) Politeness (Linguistics) POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture Sprache Unhöflichkeit