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- From Speech Acts to Lay Understandings of Politeness
- From Speech Acts to Lay Understandings of Politeness
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Im/politeness between the Analyst and Participant Perspectives: An Overview of the Field
- Part I Concepts and Cultural Norms Underlying Speech Acts
- 1 Offers in Greek Revisited
- 2 Politeness, Praising, and Identity Construction in a Greek Food Blog
- 3 Online Compliments of Iranian Facebook Users
- 4 Qué perfección : Complimenting Behaviour among Ecuadorian Teenage Girls on Instagram
- 5 Not All Positive: On the Landscape of Thanking Items in Cypriot Greek
- 6 Researching Im/politeness in Face-to-Face Interactions: On Disagreements in Polish Homes
- Part II Concepts and Cultural Norms Underlying Politeness
- Epilogue: Personal Encounters with Politeness Research
- Index
- References
6 - Researching Im/politeness in Face-to-Face Interactions: On Disagreements in Polish Homes
from Part I - Concepts and Cultural Norms Underlying Speech Acts
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 14 June 2019
- From Speech Acts to Lay Understandings of Politeness
- From Speech Acts to Lay Understandings of Politeness
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Im/politeness between the Analyst and Participant Perspectives: An Overview of the Field
- Part I Concepts and Cultural Norms Underlying Speech Acts
- 1 Offers in Greek Revisited
- 2 Politeness, Praising, and Identity Construction in a Greek Food Blog
- 3 Online Compliments of Iranian Facebook Users
- 4 Qué perfección : Complimenting Behaviour among Ecuadorian Teenage Girls on Instagram
- 5 Not All Positive: On the Landscape of Thanking Items in Cypriot Greek
- 6 Researching Im/politeness in Face-to-Face Interactions: On Disagreements in Polish Homes
- Part II Concepts and Cultural Norms Underlying Politeness
- Epilogue: Personal Encounters with Politeness Research
- Index
- References
Summary
Ogiermann’s chapter explores disagreements in naturally occurring conversations taking place between spouses in Polish homes. The disagreements under scrutiny arise while accomplishing everyday tasks and generally aim at achieving the best outcome for all members of the family. Yet the analyses demonstrate that the disagreements are treated as face-threatening. The study is based on video recordings, making it possible to include non-verbal aspects of the interaction in the analysis. Taking these aspects into account sheds new light on the disagreements, showing that they often form a background activity to the tasks being performed, which continue being executed as the disagreements evolve and impact on how they evolve. The analysis of the interactional data is complemented with interviews, which largely confirm the interpretations derived from the recordings, while also providing a broader perspective on how the disagreements and understandings of politeness shape, and are shaped by, the couples’ family lives.
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- From Speech Acts to Lay Understandings of PolitenessMultilingual and Multicultural Perspectives, pp. 146 - 174Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2019
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