Journal of Politeness Research. Language, Behaviour, Culture, 2011
In this introductory essay, I outline some of the studies which have already explored facework an... more In this introductory essay, I outline some of the studies which have already explored facework and im/politeness in legal contexts:
John Benjamins Publishing Company eBooks, Oct 5, 2020
This chapter undertakes a keyword analysis of seven Shakespearean characters: Titus, Tamora, Aaro... more This chapter undertakes a keyword analysis of seven Shakespearean characters: Titus, Tamora, Aaron, Lear, Edmund, Macbeth and Lady Macbeth. The chapter discusses how, once contextualised, these keywords provide useful insights into their feelings/thoughts towards others, events, motivations to act, etc. In terms of findings, only Aaron denotes his "villainy" directly. Tamora, in contrast, draws upon a keyword that is denotatively positive; in context, though, "sweet" reveals her womanly wiles. "Weep", for Lear, and "legitimate" and "base", for Edmund, problematize their status as (one-dimensional) villains. Macbeth and Lady Macbeth draw upon grammatical keywords, "if " and "would" in ways that signal something about their (deteriorating) emotional and social positions as much as their villainous intentions
This edited collection, on politeness in professional contexts, has been written with three targe... more This edited collection, on politeness in professional contexts, has been written with three target audiences in mind: academics, professionals and practitioners. Politenessand especially facework (or relational work) more generallyis relevant to almost every sphere of social life. 1 Yet, only a handful of publications deal specifically with the way(s) in which politeness theory can be applied to professional contexts (e.g.
In: Jonathan Culpeper, Francis Katamba , Paul Kerswill, Ruth Wodak and Tony McEnery (eds.) Englis... more In: Jonathan Culpeper, Francis Katamba , Paul Kerswill, Ruth Wodak and Tony McEnery (eds.) English Language: Description, Variation and Context.
Contents: Does frequency really matter?, Dawn Archer Word frequency use or misuse?, John M. Kirk ... more Contents: Does frequency really matter?, Dawn Archer Word frequency use or misuse?, John M. Kirk Word frequency, statistical stylistics and authorship attribution, David L. Hoover Word frequency in context: alternative architectures for examining related words, register variation and historical change, Mark Davies Issues for historical and regional corpora: first catch your word, Christian Kay In search of a bad reference corpus, Mike Scott Keywords and moral panics: Mary Whitehouse and media censorship, Tony McEnery 'The question is, how cruel is it?' Keywords, foxhunting and the House of Commons, Paul Baker Love - 'a familiar or a devil'? An exploration of key domains in Shakespeare's comedies and tragedies, Dawn Archer, Jonathan Culpeper and Paul Rayson Promoting the wider use of word frequency and keyword extraction techniques, Dawn Archer Appendices Bibliography Index.
This paper explores the language of MPs and Peers, when negotiating their differences in times pa... more This paper explores the language of MPs and Peers, when negotiating their differences in times past. Specifically, I draw upon Historic Hansard data (1803-2005) representative of the two Houses (Commons and Lords), paying particular attention to exchanges involving expressive politeness features (deferential terms, polite preludes, etc.). I demonstrate how such features enabled parliamentarians to "do" deference and respect, but sometimes at a surface level only. For example, utterances containing expressive politeness features functioned as implicit accusations relating to another's inaccurate or misguided views on a particular issue and/or as a means of claiming a conflicting position. I suggest that, because such behaviour was (and remains) institutionally sanctioned and deliberately ritualistic, it did not then nor does not now constitute systematic impoliteness, in the main (cf. Harris 2001). Rather, we witness a range of facework behaviour in parliamentary debates: from face enhancement to face aggravation, and everything between (Archer, 2015).
A variety of face types can be in operation in workplaces, dependent on, for example, the kind of... more A variety of face types can be in operation in workplaces, dependent on, for example, the kind of workplace, the various activities engaged in in that workplace, the status/role/gender of participants working in and/or connected with the workplace, etc. This paper offers an adapted version of Archer's (2015) Facework Scale as a means of accounting for the different types of face in evidence in one activity-Performance Appraisals-in one workplace, relating to a UK retail organization. We will show that interlocutors used facework strategies that emphasized different or multiple facets of face on both a professional and personal level (Jagodziński 2013). This includes attempting to safeguard/support their working relationships (Haugh 2013) by managing impressions of self and/or the company (Jones and Pitman 1982) at the same time as maintaining credibility for self and/or other(s) (Bolino et al. 2016). We use our findings to argue that employers and their employees would benefit from having an understanding of face(work), and briefly discuss the training implications for Performance Appraisals if face(work) notions were introduced.
In this paper, we argue that there is another approach to the study of historical pragmatics beyo... more In this paper, we argue that there is another approach to the study of historical pragmatics beyond those explicitly mentioned in Jacobs and Jucker (1995). We label this approach "sociophilology". Moreover, we demonstrate how this approach can be effectively pursued by combining two corpus linguistics techniques: corpus annotation and "keyness" analysis. Specifically, we draw from the Sociopragmatic Corpus (1640-1760), an annotated subsection of comedy plays and drama proceedings taken from the Corpus of Dialogues 1560-1760, as a means of identifying the statistically-based style markers, or key items, associated with a number of social role dyads (including examiner to examinee and master/mistress to servant). We will show how such an approach might be used to uncover differential distributions of personal pronouns, interjections, imperative verbs, politeness formulae, etc., and how, by combining qualitative analysis with quantitative analysis, one can scrutinise such material for pragmatic import.
Journal of Politeness Research. Language, Behaviour, Culture, 2011
In this introductory essay, I outline some of the studies which have already explored facework an... more In this introductory essay, I outline some of the studies which have already explored facework and im/politeness in legal contexts:
John Benjamins Publishing Company eBooks, Oct 5, 2020
This chapter undertakes a keyword analysis of seven Shakespearean characters: Titus, Tamora, Aaro... more This chapter undertakes a keyword analysis of seven Shakespearean characters: Titus, Tamora, Aaron, Lear, Edmund, Macbeth and Lady Macbeth. The chapter discusses how, once contextualised, these keywords provide useful insights into their feelings/thoughts towards others, events, motivations to act, etc. In terms of findings, only Aaron denotes his "villainy" directly. Tamora, in contrast, draws upon a keyword that is denotatively positive; in context, though, "sweet" reveals her womanly wiles. "Weep", for Lear, and "legitimate" and "base", for Edmund, problematize their status as (one-dimensional) villains. Macbeth and Lady Macbeth draw upon grammatical keywords, "if " and "would" in ways that signal something about their (deteriorating) emotional and social positions as much as their villainous intentions
This edited collection, on politeness in professional contexts, has been written with three targe... more This edited collection, on politeness in professional contexts, has been written with three target audiences in mind: academics, professionals and practitioners. Politenessand especially facework (or relational work) more generallyis relevant to almost every sphere of social life. 1 Yet, only a handful of publications deal specifically with the way(s) in which politeness theory can be applied to professional contexts (e.g.
In: Jonathan Culpeper, Francis Katamba , Paul Kerswill, Ruth Wodak and Tony McEnery (eds.) Englis... more In: Jonathan Culpeper, Francis Katamba , Paul Kerswill, Ruth Wodak and Tony McEnery (eds.) English Language: Description, Variation and Context.
Contents: Does frequency really matter?, Dawn Archer Word frequency use or misuse?, John M. Kirk ... more Contents: Does frequency really matter?, Dawn Archer Word frequency use or misuse?, John M. Kirk Word frequency, statistical stylistics and authorship attribution, David L. Hoover Word frequency in context: alternative architectures for examining related words, register variation and historical change, Mark Davies Issues for historical and regional corpora: first catch your word, Christian Kay In search of a bad reference corpus, Mike Scott Keywords and moral panics: Mary Whitehouse and media censorship, Tony McEnery 'The question is, how cruel is it?' Keywords, foxhunting and the House of Commons, Paul Baker Love - 'a familiar or a devil'? An exploration of key domains in Shakespeare's comedies and tragedies, Dawn Archer, Jonathan Culpeper and Paul Rayson Promoting the wider use of word frequency and keyword extraction techniques, Dawn Archer Appendices Bibliography Index.
This paper explores the language of MPs and Peers, when negotiating their differences in times pa... more This paper explores the language of MPs and Peers, when negotiating their differences in times past. Specifically, I draw upon Historic Hansard data (1803-2005) representative of the two Houses (Commons and Lords), paying particular attention to exchanges involving expressive politeness features (deferential terms, polite preludes, etc.). I demonstrate how such features enabled parliamentarians to "do" deference and respect, but sometimes at a surface level only. For example, utterances containing expressive politeness features functioned as implicit accusations relating to another's inaccurate or misguided views on a particular issue and/or as a means of claiming a conflicting position. I suggest that, because such behaviour was (and remains) institutionally sanctioned and deliberately ritualistic, it did not then nor does not now constitute systematic impoliteness, in the main (cf. Harris 2001). Rather, we witness a range of facework behaviour in parliamentary debates: from face enhancement to face aggravation, and everything between (Archer, 2015).
A variety of face types can be in operation in workplaces, dependent on, for example, the kind of... more A variety of face types can be in operation in workplaces, dependent on, for example, the kind of workplace, the various activities engaged in in that workplace, the status/role/gender of participants working in and/or connected with the workplace, etc. This paper offers an adapted version of Archer's (2015) Facework Scale as a means of accounting for the different types of face in evidence in one activity-Performance Appraisals-in one workplace, relating to a UK retail organization. We will show that interlocutors used facework strategies that emphasized different or multiple facets of face on both a professional and personal level (Jagodziński 2013). This includes attempting to safeguard/support their working relationships (Haugh 2013) by managing impressions of self and/or the company (Jones and Pitman 1982) at the same time as maintaining credibility for self and/or other(s) (Bolino et al. 2016). We use our findings to argue that employers and their employees would benefit from having an understanding of face(work), and briefly discuss the training implications for Performance Appraisals if face(work) notions were introduced.
In this paper, we argue that there is another approach to the study of historical pragmatics beyo... more In this paper, we argue that there is another approach to the study of historical pragmatics beyond those explicitly mentioned in Jacobs and Jucker (1995). We label this approach "sociophilology". Moreover, we demonstrate how this approach can be effectively pursued by combining two corpus linguistics techniques: corpus annotation and "keyness" analysis. Specifically, we draw from the Sociopragmatic Corpus (1640-1760), an annotated subsection of comedy plays and drama proceedings taken from the Corpus of Dialogues 1560-1760, as a means of identifying the statistically-based style markers, or key items, associated with a number of social role dyads (including examiner to examinee and master/mistress to servant). We will show how such an approach might be used to uncover differential distributions of personal pronouns, interjections, imperative verbs, politeness formulae, etc., and how, by combining qualitative analysis with quantitative analysis, one can scrutinise such material for pragmatic import.
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