Broadening the horizon of linguistic politeness / edited by Robin T. Lakoff, Sachiko Ide.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

This collection of 19 papers celebrates the coming of age of the field of politeness studies, now in its 30th year. It begins with an investigation of the meaning of politeness, especially linguistic politeness, and presents a short history of the field of linguistic politeness studies, showing how such studies go beyond the boundaries of conventional linguistic work, incorporating, as they do, non-language insights. The emphasis of the volume is on non-Western languages and the ways linguistic politeness is achieved with them. Many, if not most, studies have focused on Western languages, but.

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Broadening the Horizon of Linguistic Politeness; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; Acknowledgments; Foreword; Introduction; I. General overviews; Civility and its discontents*; How and why honorifics can signify dignity and elegance; Whither politeness; II. The theoretical perspective; Yoroshiku onegaishimasu; An argument for a frame-based approach to politeness; The significance of f̀ace' and politeness in social interaction as revealed through Thai 'face' idioms; III. The descriptive perspective.

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