Impoliteness in corpora : a comparative analysis of British English and spoken Turkish / Hatice Çelebi.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Çelebi, Hatice, author.

Contributor:

Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

Series:

Pragmatic interfaces. (NL-LeOCL)303486090.

Pragmatic interfaces

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Politeness (Linguistics).

Politeness (Linguistics)--Great Britain.

Politeness (Linguistics)--Turkey.

Corpora (Linguistics).

Power (Social sciences).

Grammar, Comparative and general.

Interpersonal relations.

Great Britain.

Turkey.

Physical Description:

vi, 237 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Sheffield, UK ; Bristol, CT : Equinox, 2015.

Summary:

This book aims to devise a methodological framework to analyse impoliteness in corpora. In doing so, it tackles the issues of the methodology of extracting and analyzing impoliteness in general corpora in both British English and Turkish. The focus of the extraction and analysis is on informal conversation as a genre in spoken interaction. The data have been retrieved from two different corpora, the British national Corpus XML edition and the Spoken Turkish Corpus (Ruhl et al, 2010), which is currently under construction as a project sponsored by the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey and the Middle East Technical University. Impoliteness in Corpora lays out a well-defined methodology for the extraction of impoliteness from everyday spoken interaction, to minimize the degree of subjectivity and prevent epistemological fallacies at the analysis level. The methodological discussion has been developed around the issues related to investigation impoliteness in a corpus driven linguistics approach. In line with this approach to investigating language use, the book illustrates that a corpus approach to impoliteness is exploratory and data-driven. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 Introduction: Impoliteness in Spoken Corpora 1

1.1 Why impoliteness? 1

1.2 An overview of the book 3

1.3 The scope of the book 6

1.4 The aims of the book 11

1.5 The data and challenges 15

1.6 The contributions of the book 18

1.7 Outline of the book 19

2 Impoliteness Phenomena, Coversation and Corpus Linguistics 21

2.1 Perspective on Politeness 21

2.2 Perspectives on Impoliteness 23

2.3 Perspectives on the Concept of Face 40

2.4 Conversation as Discourse Type 50

2.5 Conversation Analysis 57

2.6 Corpus Drive Linguistics 62

3 A Methodological Perspective to Studying Impoliteness: Research Design and Corpora 67

3.1 An Overview 67

3.2 Research Design 69

3.3 Research Questions 73

3.4 The Corpora 75

3.4.1 British National Corpus (BNC) 75

3.4.2 Turkish Spoken Corpus (STC) 76

3.5 Annotations and the Corpora 90

3.6 Extraction and the Corpora 99

3.7 Methodological Issues: The Discursive, Cue-based and Cyclic Approaches 111

4 Imploitencess in Conversation: The British English and Turkish 116

4.1 An Overview 116

4.2 Impoliteness in the BNC 116

4.3 Impoliteness in the STC 148

4.4 An Overview 186

5 Visitring the Methodological Perspective: Emerging Issues 188

5.1 Impoliteness and the study 188

5.2 Extraction and the Methodology: Revisiting Research Questions 191

5.3 Analysis: Insights from the Data 197

5.4 Contrastive Level: British English and Turkish 203

5.5 Emerging Concepts: Face and Impoliteness 205

5.6 The Cyclic Research Pattern 208

5.7 Areas for Future Research 211

6 Conclusion 213

6.1 Final Word 213.

Notes:

Originally published as the author's PhD under the title "Extracting and analyzing impoliteness in corpora a study based on the British National Corpus and the spoken Turkish corpus"; Middle East Technological University.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-231) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

ISBN:

1781790701

9781781790700

OCLC:

878117221

Publisher Number:

99965829306