The Pragmatics of Hypocrisy / Sandrine Sorlin and Tuija Virtanen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sorlin, Sandrine.

Contributor:

Virtanen, Tuija.

Series:

Pragmatics and Beyond New Series

Pragmatics and Beyond New Series ; v.343

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hypocrisy--Case studies.

Hypocrisy.

Pragmatics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (268 pages).

Edition:

1st edition.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam/Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2024.

Summary:

As a first attempt to date, this book addresses the notion of hypocrisy from a pragmatic perspective and devises a comprehensive model of verbal hypocrisy. The studies included adopt emic and etic approaches in order to contribute jointly towards an understanding of what appears to be a ubiquitous and multifaceted phenomenon.

Contents:

Intro

Part I Introducing and theorizing hypocrisy

Chapter 1 Introduction to hypocrisy

1. Introduction

2. Hypocrisy as misalignment (of various kinds)

3. Hypocrisy as a sham (to varying degrees)

4. Aim, rationale and working definition

5. Structure and contents

References

Chapter 2 A pragmatic model of hypocrisy

2. Thinking differently about hypocrisy

3. A pragmatic analysis

4. Proximity to established pragmatic notions

4.1 Face

4.2 Tact

4.3 Flattery

4.4 Politeness

4.5 Irony

4.6 Deception

4.7 Lying

5. A pragmatic model of hypocrisy

6. Concluding remarks

Part II Metapragmatic approaches to hypocrisy

Chapter 3 Politics, religion, and drama

2. Background

2.1 Theoretical outlook

2.2 Hypocrisy and word-deed misalignment

2.3 Research questions

3. Methodology

3.1 Corpus-based methods

3.2 Data

4. Results and analysis

4.1 Social actors

4.2 Religion and morality

4.3 Society, social issues, and justice

4.4 Class system

4.5 Drama

4.6 Metaphors

5. Discussion

6. Conclusion

Appendix. Top 150 collocates of hypocr* in the Times Online: 2000s corpus

Chapter 4 "Ding ding ding we have a hypocrite!"

2. Hypocrisy

3. Metapragmatics

4. Material and methods

5. Claims of hypocrisy in the discussions on TSR forums

5.1 Self-condemnation

5.2 Other-directed claims

5.2.1 Detection and denial

5.2.2 Detection and acknowledgement

5.2.3 Detection and disregard

6. From double standards to the moral high ground: Causes of claims of hypocrisy

7. Conclusions

Part III Hypocrisy and authenticity in political and public discourse

Chapter 5 Hypocrisy, authenticity, and the rhetorical dynamics of populism

1. Introduction.

2. Truth, populism, and the public sphere

2.1 Truth and post-truth

2.2 Populism

3. Types of hypocrisy in public discourse

4. Double standards in public life

4.1 Shocking exposures

4.1.1 The downfall of Tim Yeo

4.1.2 Matt Hancock caught in the act

4.1.3 The Mail vs. the BBC

4.2 Hypocrisy in practice

5. Hypocrisy and the tabloids: Reporting climate activism

5.1 Thunberg at Davos

5.2 Preaching to the masses

5.3 "Eco-hypocrites"

5.4 Hypocrisy and religion

6. Hypocrisy and authenticity

7. Conclusion

Chapter 6 Apology as hypocrisy

1. Introduction1

1.1 Conceptual clarifications and some words on methodology

1.2 Can hypocritical apologies be identified - beyond intuition?

2. A second-order approach to allegedly hypocritical apologies

2.1 Felicity conditions

2.1.1 Prototypical apologies and their felicity conditions

2.1.2 In search of felicity conditions for hypocritical apologies

2.1.3 Felicity conditions and Clinton's and Trump's apologies

2.2 Move structure

2.3 Linguistic material that is not included in genuine apologies

3. Discussion

3.1 Moves serving purposes other than apologizing

3.2 Lexical content as an indicator of hypocrisy

4. Conclusion

Part IV Benign hypocrisy

Chapter 7 Ostensible offers, politeness and sincere hypocrisy

2. Politeness, (in)sincerity and hypocrisy

3. Ostensible social actions

4. Genuine and ostensible offers in first conversations

4.1 Data and method

4.2 Genuine offers

4.3 Ostensible offers

5. Conclusion

Chapter 8 Pretending to pretend

2. Hypocrisy and pretence, offline and online

3. Virtual performatives, GIFs, and social tagging

4. Data

5. Autohypocrisy

5.1 Virtually pretending to be shocked.

5.2 Pretending to pretend (to pretend)

6. Forms of virtual pretence: Conventionalization and creativity

7. Concluding remarks

Part V The ubiquity of hypocrisy

Chapter 9 The - mostly - brighter side of hypocrisy and the concept of face

1. Introduction: appearance and reality

2. The relation between face and hypocrisy

3. The nature of face: Appearance as reality

4. Hypocrisy round (almost) every corner

5. Saving face and increasing amity

6. Speech acts

7. Finally: A nod to the dark side

Chapter 10 A plea for hypocrisy

2. Establishing the frontiers of a pragmatic space

3. Pragmatic degrees in hypocrisy

3.1 A continuum

3.2 Hypocritical compliments

3.3 Dissimulation

3.4 Simulation and self-deception

4. The Hypocrisy Principle

5. Civil hypocrisy as shared understanding

Part VI Closing

Chapter 11 An epilogue and note on cross-cultural hypocrisy

Index.

Notes:

Title from online title page (viewed on April 9, 2024).

Includes bibliographic references and index.

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Other Format:

Print version: Sorlin, Sandrine The Pragmatics of Hypocrisy

ISBN:

90-272-4705-6

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