Aspects of Linguistics Impoliteness (Aug 2013)

Aspects of Linguistic Impoliteness
Editor: Denis Jamet and Manuel Jobert
Date Of Publication: Aug 2013
Isbn13: 978-1-4438-4905-0
Isbn: 1-4438-4905-7 Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Aspects of Linguistic Impoliteness aims to bring together a wide range of theoretical and methodological approaches exploring the notion of “impoliteness” and the usage of impoliteness phenomena in language and discourse per se, instead of simply considering impoliteness as “politeness that has gone wrong”. Impoliteness draws mainly on linguistics, but also its sub-disciplines, as well as related disciplines such as psychology, philosophy, sociology, anthropology and communication.

Various researchers have been selected to contribute to Aspects of Linguistic Impoliteness, and the diversity of sub-disciplinary approaches is reflected in the multi-dimensional organisation of the five sections of the book.

The book is divided into five thematic parts, with 16 chapters in all, as follows. The first part aims to study the links between impoliteness and rudeness, by providing a general framework to these notions. The second part deals with occurrences of impoliteness in television series and drama, when the third part mainly focuses on the discursive creations of impoliteness found in literary works. The fourth part concentrates on impoliteness and the philosophy of language, and the fifth and final part offers some case-studies of impoliteness in modern communication.

 

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Introduction .............................................................................................. vii

Denis Jamet and Manuel Jobert

List of Contributors ................................................................................. xiii

Chapter One

General Approaches to Impoliteness and Rudeness

Part I: Impoliteness: Questions and Answers ............................................. 2

Jonathan Culpeper

Part II: Politeness, Impoliteness, Non-Politeness, “Polirudeness”

The Case of Political TV Debates ............................................................ 16

Catherine Kerbrat-Orecchioni

Part III: The Power of Impoliteness: A Historical Perspective ................. 46

Sandrine Sorlin

Chapter Two

Impoliteness in Television Series and in Drama

Part I: Dr. House and the Language of Offence ....................................... 60

Linda Pillière

Part II: Domestic and Professional Impoliteness in Fawlty Towers:

Impoliteness as a Dramatic Device ........................................................... 75

Manuel Jobert

Part III: “Polite Company”:

Offensive Discourse in William Congreve’s Comedies ........................... 94

Natalie Mandon-Hunter

Chapter Three

Impoliteness in Literature

Part I: Medieval Rudeness:

The English Version of a French Romance Custom ............................... 110

Brindusa Grigoriu

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Part II: Paradoxes of Impoliteness in Vanity Fair,

by W.M. Thackeray ................................................................................ 122

Jacqueline Fromonot

Part III: Impoliteness and Rebellion in “Christmas”

by John McGahern ................................................................................. 134

Vanina Jobert-Martini

Part IV: “Who are They to Talk to Us Like That?”

Narrative Impoliteness and the Reader ................................................... 145

Claire Majola-Leblond

Chapter Four

Impoliteness in Philosophy of Language

Part I: Systematized Impoliteness in the Nonsense World of Alice’s

Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass ................. 160

Célia Schneebeli

Part II: Impoliteness, agôn, dissensus in “The Two Philosophers”:

Irvine Welsh and a Political Philosophy of Language ............................ 172

Simone Rinzler

Chapter Five

Impoliteness and Modern Communication

Part I: You Know: (Im)politeness Marker

in Naturally Occurring Speech?.............................................................. 190

Isabelle Gaudy-Campbell

Part II: Alternative Spelling and Censorship:

The Treatment of Profanities in Virtual Communities ........................... 209

Laura-Gabrielle Goudet

Part III: Fanning the Flames?

A Study of Insult Forums on the Internet ............................................... 223

Bertrand Richet

Index .......................................................................................................