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Gender and impoliteness SARA MILLS Abstract This article analyzes the complex relationship between gender and impo-liteness. Rather than assuming that gender and impoliteness are concrete entities which can be traced in conversation, I argue that gender and impo-liteness are elements which are worked out within the course of interaction.
Impoliteness in interaction Derek Bousfield John Benjamins Publishing, Amsterdam, 2008 $158 (hard), pp. 281 Imagine a situation in which a woman comes out of a store following a not‐so‐quick visit to pick up a prescription and sees a parking enforcement officer putting a boot on her car. She runs up to the officer screaming, “WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU DOING?” Exchanges between drivers and “clampers,” as parking officers are called in the U.K., are one of the situations that is the focus of Derek Bousfield’s book, Impoliteness in Interaction. Two other impolite‐likely situations are also foci: the training of military recruits and exchanges between a head chef and employees in a Michelin‐star‐pursuing restaurant. The conversational exchanges that are the objects of analysis in Bousfield’s book come from 101 instances culled from British reality TV shows and docudramas. Using analysis of transcribed exchanges from these three types of situations, Bousfield develops a context‐grounded theory of impoliteness. Impoliteness is all about rude, angry, and sarcastic comments, often adorned with obscene language. More formally defined, impolitness is “the issuing of intentionally gratuitous and conflictive verbal face‐threatening acts (FTAs) which are purposively performed unmitigated, in contexts where mitigation is required and/or with
- Politeness, Impoliteness and Ritual examines this complex relationship by setting up a multi-layered analytic model, with a multidisciplinary approach which will appeal to interaction scholars, politeness researchers, social psychologists and anthropologists, and moral psychologists.
- Impoliteness in interaction ‐ by Derek Bousfield Impoliteness in interaction ‐ by Derek Bousfield Tracy, Karen 2009-03-01 00:00:00 Impoliteness in interaction Derek Bousfield John Benjamins Publishing, Amsterdam, 2008 $158 (hard), pp. 281 Imagine a situation in which a woman comes out of a store following a not‐so‐quick visit to pick up a prescription and sees a parking enforcement.
Journal
Journal of Communication – Oxford University Press
Published: Mar 1, 2009
Abstract
Impoliteness in interaction Derek Bousfield John Benjamins Publishing, Amsterdam, 2008 $158 (hard), pp. 281 Imagine a situation in which a woman comes out of a store following a not‐so‐quick visit to pick up a prescription and sees a parking enforcement officer putting a boot on her car. She runs up to the officer screaming, “WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU DOING?” Exchanges between drivers and “clampers,” as parking officers are called in the U.K., are one of the situations that is the focus of Derek Bousfield’s book, Impoliteness in Interaction. Two other impolite‐likely situations are also foci: the training of military recruits and exchanges between a head chef and employees in a Michelin‐star‐pursuing restaurant. The conversational exchanges that are the objects of analysis in Bousfield’s book come from 101 instances culled from British reality TV shows and docudramas. Using analysis of transcribed exchanges from these three types of situations, Bousfield develops a context‐grounded theory of impoliteness. Impoliteness is all about rude, angry, and sarcastic comments, often adorned with obscene language. More formally defined, impolitness is “the issuing of intentionally gratuitous and conflictive verbal face‐threatening acts (FTAs) which are purposively performed unmitigated, in contexts where mitigation is required and/or with
Impoliteness In Interaction
Journal
Journal of Communication – Oxford University Press
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Published: Mar 1, 2009