Discourse and politeness : ambivalent face in Japanese / Naomi Geyer.
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 de...
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London ; New York :
Continuum,
©2008.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Politeness, face, and identity
- Analyzing facework
- Collaborative disagreement
- Teasing and humor
- Talking about troubles
- The meeting: facework in description and discourse organization
- Conclusion.