Mock politeness in English and Italian : a corpus-assisted metalanguage analysis / Charlotte Taylor.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Taylor, Charlotte, 1977- author.

Series:

Pragmatics & beyond companion series ; 267.

Pragmatics & beyond new series (P&BNS) ; volume 267

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Discourse analysis.

Wit and humor--History and criticism--Theory, etc.

Wit and humor.

Popular culture--Humor.

Popular culture.

English language--Great Britain--Social life and customs.

English language.

English wit and humor--Theory, etc.

English wit and humor.

Italian language--Social life and customs.

Italian language.

Italian wit and humor--Theory, etc.

Italian wit and humor.

Metalanguage.

Manners and customs.

Great Britain.

Physical Description:

xii, 232 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2016]

Summary:

This volume presents an in-depth analysis of mock politeness, bringing together research from different academic fields and investigating a range of first-order metapragmatic labels for mock politeness in British English and Italian. It is the first book-length theorisation and detailed description of mock politeness and, as such, contributes to the growing field of impoliteness. The approach taken is methodologically innovative because it takes a first-order metalanguage approach, basing the analysis on behaviours which participants themselves have identified as impolite. Furthermore, it exploits the affordances of corpus pragmatics, a rapidly developing field. 'Mock Politeness in English and Italian: A corpus-assisted metalanguage analysis' will be of interest to scholars and postgraduate students researching im/politeness and verbal aggression, in particular those interested in im/politeness implicatures and non-conventional meanings.

Contents:

1 Acknowledgements p. xiii

2 1. Introduction p. 1

3 2. Im/politeness mismatch p. 13

4 3. Mock politeness by another name? p. 27

5 4. Whose im/politeness? p. 53

6 5. Methodological approachesto im/politeness mismatch p. 73

7 6. Data description and corpus tools p. 93

8 7. Evaluation and use of the metapragmaticlabels irony and sarcasm p. 109

9 8. Examining the behaviours labelledas ironic and sarcastic p. 127

10 9. Metapragmatic labels and mock politeness p. 153

11 10. The shape of mock polite behaviours p. 179

12 11. Conclusions p. 203

13 References p. 211

14 Index p. 231.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Taylor, Charlotte, 1977- author. Mock politeness in English and Italian

ISBN:

9789027256720

9027256721

OCLC:

951644426