Gender, politeness and pragmatic particles in French / Kate Beeching.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Beeching, Kate.

Series:

Pragmatics & beyond ; new ser. 104.

Pragmatics & beyond ; new ser. 104

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

French language--Particles.

French language.

French language--Sex differences.

Women--Language.

Women.

Courtesy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource ([ix], 246 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub., c2002.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This study aims to investigate politeness in women's and men's speech, with a particular focus on the use of c'est-à-dire, enfin, hein and quoi in contemporary spoken French. Politeness is defined as going beyond the notion of the face-threatening act, englobing both everyday ideas of politeness and the creation of sociability in face-to-face interaction.The pragmatic particles studied are demonstrated to serve both psycholinguistic and sociolinguistic purposes: they lubricate reformulation and contribute to both sociability and social indexation.The study, which combines qualitative and quantitative analysis, is based on a corpus of spontaneous spoken French, comprising 155,000 words, 95 interviews and subjects ranging in age from 7 to 88 years. The sample contains speakers from a broader range of educational backgrounds than is often the case: a butcher, a video-salesman and a toiletteur canin rub shoulders with counter assistants, teachers and doctors.

Contents:

Gender, Politeness and Pragmatic Particles in French

Editorial page

Title page

LCC page

Table of contents

Preface and Acknowledgements

List of abbreviations

Chapter 1 Introduction

Notes

Chapter 2 Discourse markers and pragmatic particles

Note

Chapter 3 Establishing and investigating a corpus of spoken French

Chapter 4 The qualitative analysis

Chapter 5 C'est-à-dire (que)

Chapter 6 Enfin

Chapter 7 Hein

Chapter 8 Quoi

Chapter 9 Conclusion

Appendix

References

Index

The PRAGMATICS AND BEYOND NEW SERIES.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. [223]-240) and index.

ISBN:

9786612160974

9781282160972

1282160974

9789027296207

9027296200

OCLC:

56118181