Women Men And Politeness

Author : Janet Holmes
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2013-11-26
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781317898733

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Women, Men and Politeness by Janet Holmes Pdf

Women, Men and Politeness focuses on the specific issue of the ways in which women and men express politeness verbally. Using a range of evidence and a corpus of data collected largely from New Zealand, Janet Holmes examines the distribution and functions of a range of specific verbal politeness strategies in women's and men's speech and discusses the possible reasons for gender differences in this area. Data provided on interactional strategies, 'hedges and boosters', compliments and apologies, demonstrates ways in which women's politeness patterns differ from men's, with the implications of these different patterns explored, for women in particular, in the areas of education and professional careers.

Author : Janet Holmes
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2013-11-26
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781317898726

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Women, Men and Politeness by Janet Holmes Pdf

Women, Men and Politeness focuses on the specific issue of the ways in which women and men express politeness verbally. Using a range of evidence and a corpus of data collected largely from New Zealand, Janet Holmes examines the distribution and functions of a range of specific verbal politeness strategies in women's and men's speech and discusses the possible reasons for gender differences in this area. Data provided on interactional strategies, 'hedges and boosters', compliments and apologies, demonstrates ways in which women's politeness patterns differ from men's, with the implications of these different patterns explored, for women in particular, in the areas of education and professional careers.

Author : Sara Mills
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2003-07-10
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0521009197

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Gender and Politeness by Sara Mills Pdf

Gender and Politeness challenges the notion that women are necessarily always more polite than men as much of the language and gender literature claims. Sara Mills discusses the complex relations between gender and politeness and argues that although there are circumstances when women speakers, drawing on stereotypes of femininity to guide their behaviour, will appear to be acting in a more polite way than men, there are many circumstances where women will act just as impolitely as men.

Author : Janet Holmes,Maria Stubbe
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2015-02-20
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781317611530

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Power and Politeness in the Workplace by Janet Holmes,Maria Stubbe Pdf

Power and Politeness in the Workplace has become established as a seminal text for courses in language and professional communication. Co-authored by bestselling author Janet Holmes, this text provides insights into the way we all talk at work, including a wealth of material illustrating the way people communicate with each other in their ordinary everyday encounters in their workplaces. The analysis focuses, in particular, on how and why people "do" power and politeness in the workplace, and examines the discourse strategies involved in balancing the competing demands of meeting workplace objectives and getting things done on time with maintaining good collegial workplace relationships. Drawing on a large and very varied corpus of data collected in a wide range of workplaces, the authors explore specific types of workplace talk, such as giving advice and instructions, solving problems, running meetings and making decisions. Attention is also paid to the important contribution of less obviously relevant types of workplace talk such as humour and small talk, to the construction of effective workplace relationships. In the final chapter some of the practical implications of the analyses are identified. This Routledge Linguistics Classic is here reissued with a new preface from the authors, covering the methods of analysis, an update on the Language in the Workplace project and a look at the work in the context of recent research. Power and Politeness in the Workplace continues to be a vital read for researchers and postgraduate students in the fields of applied linguistics and communication studies.

Author : Sara Mills
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0719053358

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Gender and Colonial Space by Sara Mills Pdf

"The aim of this book is to interrogate the process whereby spatial relations are constituted as gendered, raced and classed within the colonial and imperial context." --introd.

Author : Florence Hartley
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1860
Category : History
ISBN : HARVARD:32044009635152

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Ladies' Book of Etiquette, and Manual of Politéness by Florence Hartley Pdf

Do unto others as you would others should do to you. You can never be rude if you bear the rule always in mind, for what lady likes to be treated rudely? True Christian politeness will always be the result of an unselfish regard for the feelings of others, and though you may err in the ceremonious points of etiquette, you will never be im polite. Politeness, founded upon such a rule, becomes the expression, in graceful manner, of social virtues. The spirit of politeness consists in a certain attention to forms and ceremonies, which are meant both to please others and ourselves, and to make others pleased with us ;a still clearer definition may be given by saying that politeness is goodness of heart put into daily practice; the.re can be no true, politeness without kindness, purity, singleness of heart, and sensibility. Many believe that politeness is but a mask worn in the world to conceal bad passions and impulses, and to make a show of possessing virtues not really existing in the heart; thus, that politeness is merely hypocrisy and dissimulation. Do not believe this; be certain that those who profess such a doctrine are practising themselves the deceit they condemn so much.

Author : Robin T. Lakoff,Sachiko Ide
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2005-10-27
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027294111

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Broadening the Horizon of Linguistic Politeness by Robin T. Lakoff,Sachiko Ide Pdf

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 the languages highlighted here show new and different aspects of the phenomena.The purpose of linguistic politeness is to aid in successful communication throughout the world, and this volume offers a balance of geographical distribution not found elsewhere, including Japanese, Thai, and Chinese, as well as Greek, Swedish and Spanish. It covers such theoretical topics as face, wakimae, social levels, gender-related differences in language usage, directness and indirectness, and intercultural perspectives.

Author : Philip (Research Editor, New Dictionary Of National Biography) Carter
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2014-07-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317882268

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Men and the Emergence of Polite Society, Britain 1660-1800 by Philip (Research Editor, New Dictionary Of National Biography) Carter Pdf

This book presents an account of masculinity in eighteenth century Britain. In particular it is concerned with the impact of an emergent polite society on notions of manliness and the gentleman. From the 1660s a new type of social behaviour, politeness, was promoted by diverse writers. Based on continental ideas of refinement, it stressed the merits of genuine and generous sociability as befitted a progressive and tolerant nation. Early eighteenth century writers encouraged men to acquire the characteristics of politeness by becoming urbane town gentlemen. Later commentators promoted an alternative culture of sensibility typified by the man of feeling. Central to both was the need to spend more time with women, now seen as key agents of refinement. The relationship demanded a reworking of what it meant to be manly. Being manly and polite was a difficult balancing act. Refined manliness presented new problems for eighteenth century men. What was the relationship between politeness and duplicity? Were feminine actions such as tears and physical delicacy acceptable or not? Critics believed polite society led to effeminacy, not manliness, and condemned this failure of male identity with reference to the fop. This book reveals the significance of social over sexual conduct for eighteenth century definitions of masculinity. It shows how features traditionally associated with nineteenth century models were well established in the earlier figure of the polite town-dweller or sentimental man of feeling. Using personal stories and diverse public statements drawn from conduct books, magazines, sermons and novels, this is a vivid account of the changing status of men and masculinity as Britain moved into the modern period.

Author : Penelope Brown,Stephen C. Levinson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1987-02-27
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0521313554

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Politeness by Penelope Brown,Stephen C. Levinson Pdf

This book studies the principles for constructing polite speeches, based on the detailed study of three unrelated languages and cultures.

Author : Robin Tolmach Lakoff
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2004-07-22
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 019534717X

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Language and Woman's Place by Robin Tolmach Lakoff Pdf

The 1975 publication of Robin Tolmach Lakoff's Language and Woman's Place, is widely recognized as having inaugurated feminist research on the relationship between language and gender, touching off a remarkable response among language scholars, feminists, and general readers. For the past thirty years, scholars of language and gender have been debating and developing Lakoff's initial observations. Arguing that language is fundamental to gender inequality, Lakoff pointed to two areas in which inequalities can be found: Language used about women, such as the asymmetries between seemingly parallel terms like master and mistress, and language used by women, which places women in a double bind between being appropriately feminine and being fully human. Lakoff's central argument that "women's language" expresses powerlessness triggered a controversy that continues to this day. The revised and expanded edition presents the full text of the original first edition, along with an introduction and annotations by Lakoff in which she reflects on the text a quarter century later and expands on some of the most widely discussed issues it raises. The volume also brings together commentaries from twenty-six leading scholars of language, gender, and sexuality, within linguistics, anthropology, modern languages, education, information sciences, and other disciplines. The commentaries discuss the book's contribution to feminist research on language and explore its ongoing relevance for scholarship in the field. This new edition of Language and Woman's Place not only makes available once again the pioneering text of feminist linguistics; just as important, it places the text in the context of contemporary feminist and gender theory for a new generation of readers.

Author : José Santaemilia
Publisher : Universitat de València
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 8437061946

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The Language of Sex: Saying & Not Saying by José Santaemilia Pdf

The language of sex: saying & not saying recull sis capítols que ofereixen indicacions pràctiques per a l’estudi del llenguatge del sexe: José Santaemilia resumeix les principals línies d’estudi d’un camp altament sensible, que genera discusos complexos i múltiples; Helen Sauntson analitza com es construeixen les diverses identitats sexuals (heterosexuals, gais, lesbianes) en converses informals; Dolores Jiménez estudia el llenguate utilizat en l’École des filles ou la philosophie des dames (1655), novel·la pornogràfica anònima francesa; Juan José Calvo descriu els orígens antropològics, històrics i lingüístics del concepte de tabú i dels usos d’eufemismes; Francisco Sánchez Benedito repassa els tipus principals d’eufemismes utilizats en anglès per a descriure els òrgans i actes sexuals; Patricia Alabarta il•lustra l’eufemisme i l’ambigüitat sexual en una sèrie de titulars de les edicions britànica, americana i espanyola de la revista Cosmopolitan.

Author : Barrie Thorne,Cheris Kramarae,Nancy Henley
Publisher : Heinle & Heinle Publishers
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : PSU:000032660746

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Language, Gender, and Society by Barrie Thorne,Cheris Kramarae,Nancy Henley Pdf

Author : Soile Ylivuori
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2018-10-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9780429845697

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Women and Politeness in Eighteenth-Century England by Soile Ylivuori Pdf

This first in-depth study of women’s politeness examines the complex relationship individuals had with the discursive ideals of polite femininity. Contextualising women’s autobiographical writings (journals and letters) with a wide range of eighteenth-century printed didactic material, it analyses the tensions between politeness discourse which aimed to regulate acceptable feminine identities and women’s possibilities to resist this disciplinary regime. Ylivuori focuses on the central role the female body played as both the means through which individuals actively fashioned themselves as polite and feminine, and the supposedly truthful expression of their inner status of polite femininity.

Author : Kate Beeching
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2002-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027253446

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Gender, Politeness and Pragmatic Particles in French by Kate Beeching Pdf

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.

Author : Leonard Bloomfield
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1987-07-27
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0226060713

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A Leonard Bloomfield Anthology by Leonard Bloomfield Pdf

In the centenary year of Leonard Bloomfield's birth, this abridgment makes available a representative selection of the writings of this central figure in the history of linguistics. "Hockett has achieved his purpose—to reveal Bloomfield's way of working, the general principles that guided his work, and last, but by no means least, to indicate how Bloomfield's interests and attitudes changed with the passing years."—Harry Hoijer, Language