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Zusatztext Geoffrey Leech's Pragmatics of Politeness (2014) manages to successfully evaluate the explanatory power of the theory of politeness and provide a robust framework that generates a better understanding of it. Informationen zum Autor Geoffrey Leech is Emeritus Professor of English Linguistics at Lancaster University, where he has been a faculty member for over 40 years. He has published many books and articles in the fields of English grammar, stylistics, pragmatics, semantics, and corpus linguistics. He was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 1987. Klappentext This readable book presents a new general theoretical understanding of politeness. It offers an account of a wide range of politeness phenomena in English, illustrated by hundreds of examples of actual language use taken largely from authentic British and American sources. Zusammenfassung This readable book presents a new general theoretical understanding of politeness. It offers an account of a wide range of politeness phenomena in English, illustrated by hundreds of examples of actual language use taken largely from authentic British and American sources. Preface ; PART I - Laying the foundations ; 1. Introduction ; 2. Politeness - Viewpoints ; 3. Pragmatics, indirectness and neg-politeness: a basis for politeness modeling ; 4. Politeness: the model ; PART II - Politeness and impoliteness in practice ; 5. A case study: Apologies ; 6. Requests and other directives ; 7. Other politeness-sensitive speech events ; 8. Politeness and its 'opposites' ; PART III - Further perspectives ; 9. Methods of data collection: empirical pragmatics ; 10. Interlanguage pragmatics and politeness across languages and cultures ; 11. Politeness and the history of English ; Appendix: Pragmatics, indirectness and neg-politeness: the background ; References ; Index
