Challenging the notion that women are necessarily always more polite than men (as language and gender literature claim), Sara Mills discusses the complex relationship between gender and politeness. Mills argues that, although women speakers, drawing on stereotypes of femininity, can appear to be acting more politely than men, there are many circumstances where women will act as "impolitely" as men.
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'... a very valuable contribution to the field for those teaching language and gender courses ... will appeal primarily to the many scholars working in the area of politeness theory ... will also be a valuable addition to the critical material available to graduates interested in pragmatics more generally, and to those interested in postmodernist approaches to gender analysis in particular ... this is an intellectually stimulating book ...'. Journal of Sociolinguistics
'... a timely reconsideration of gender and politeness ... this book has a great deal to offer researchers in various sub-disciplines of linguistics. It challenges taken-for-granted assumptions which will enable linguistic analysis to become a more theoretically complex activity, and I firmly believe that this publication will be a highly influential and authoritative text in gender and politeness research for many years to come.' Journal of Politeness Research
'... a timely reconsideration of gender and politeness ... this book has a great deal to offer researchers in various sub-disciplines of linguistics. It challenges taken-for-granted assumptions which will enable linguistic analysis to become a more theoretically complex activity, and I firmly believe that this publication will be a highly influential and authoritative text in gender and politeness research for many years to come.' Journal of Politeness Research
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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.
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hypothesised norms, mock impoliteness, politeness research, more polite than men, stereotypical level, interactional power, linguistic politeness, politeness cultures, impolite behaviour, positive politeness, politeness behaviour, impolite acts, politeness cannot, negative politeness, feminist linguistics, positively polite, feminist linguists, politeness norms, social politeness, linguistic behaviour, departmental party, politeness strategies, masculine speech, stereotypical behaviour, gendered stereotypes Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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This chapter is concerned with general problems with linguistic interpretation. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
hypothesised norms, mock impoliteness, politeness research, more polite than men, stereotypical level, interactional power, linguistic politeness, politeness cultures, impolite behaviour, positive politeness, politeness behaviour, impolite acts, politeness cannot, negative politeness, feminist linguistics, positively polite, feminist linguists, politeness norms, social politeness, linguistic behaviour, departmental party, politeness strategies, masculine speech, stereotypical behaviour, gendered stereotypes Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Model Speaker, New Zealand, House of Commons, African American, Critical Discourse Analysis, Conversation Analysis, Critical Discourse Analysts, Harness Goodwin, Prime Minister's Question Time New!
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- Identities in Talk by Charles Antaki on 6 pages
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- Politeness in Language: Studies in Its History, Theory And Practice (Mouton Textbook) by et al. Richard J. Watts (Editor) on 5 pages
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- In Other Words: Variation in Reference and Narrative (Studies in Interactional Sociolinguistics) by Deborah Schiffrin in Front Matter
- Michel Foucault (Routledge Critical Thinkers) by Sara Mills in Back Matter
- Introducing Sociolinguistics by Miriam Meyerhoff in Back Matter
- A Concise Companion to Feminist Theory (Concise Companions to Literature and Culture) by Mary Eagleton in Front Matter
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