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Politeness Metapragmatics: Inductive Research, Multimodality and Critical Theory

Politeness Metapragmatics: Inductive Research, Multimodality and Critical Theory

Hardcover

Series: Advances in (Im)Politeness Studies

Linguistics

ISBN10: 3031816420
ISBN13: 9783031816420
Publisher: Springer
Published: Jul 30 2025
Pages: 259
Weight: 1.23
Height: 0.63 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

This volume demonstrates how inductive research into speakers' metapragmatic knowledge offers a path for researching what politeness means for language users and how this reshapes politeness theory. Through bottom-up analysis of interview data collected from Korean speakers from two generations, the authors map out a participant-oriented perspective on politeness and use these findings to build new theoretical models. The results shows that politeness is a multimodal practice tied up with maintaining emotional attunement and engaging in acts of upkeeping or contesting social conventions. The book features a thorough overview of extant research in the field, three in-depth data analysis chapters and a detailed discussion of the results. By focusing on the culture-specific and empirically grounded ways that language users understand politeness, the book contributes to current trends in im/politeness research, notably third wave approaches that view politeness as a culturally embedded social action. Moreover, the book lays the groundwork for researching metapragmatics via interview data that can be applied to other languages and aspects of pragmatics. This book is a must-read for scholars and students of politeness research, pragmatics, linguistics and cultural studies.

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