Multimodal im/politeness signed, spoken, written / edited by Andreas H. Jucker, Iris Hübscher, University of Zurich, URPP Language and Space; Zurich University of Applied Sciences, Lucien Brown, Monash University.

Other author Jucker, Andreas H.
Other author Hübscher, Iris.
Other author Brown, Lucien.
Format Electronic
Publication InfoAmsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2023]
Descriptionvi, 360 pages ; 25 cm.
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SeriesPragmatics & beyond new series (P&BNS), 0922-842X ; volume 333
Contents Multimodal im/politeness : introduction / Lucien Brown, Iris Hübscher and Andreas H. Jucker -- In your face : im/politeness in signed languages, with examples from Swiss German Sign Language (DSGS) / Penny Boyes Braem and Katja Tissi -- Politeness in Catalan Sign Language (LSC) : mitigation of criticisms in spontaneous discourse in LSC / Berta Moya-Avilés, Gemma Barberà and Carme Bach -- Multimodality in refusals in English as a lingua franca / Xianming Fang -- Indexing social distance through bodily visual practices in two languages / Lucien Brown, Iris Hübscher, Hyunji Kim and Bodo Winter -- Multimodal manifestation of ta'ârof in Persian / Farbod Farahandouz and Shima Moallemi -- Within-speaker accommodation behavior in apology-centered interactions : the role of socio-pragmatic factors / Omnia Ibrahim and Iris Hübscher -- Perceptual changes between adults and children for multimodal im/politeness in Japanese / Takaaki Shochi, Albert Rilliard and Donna Erickson -- Multimodal markers of irony in televised discourse : a corpus-based approach / Claudia Lehmann -- Multimodality and subtitles : a focus on im/politeness in Japanese films with French subtitles through the example of some rituals / Chantal Claudel -- Customer support agents in Spanish live chats : affective communication and multimodal politeness / Ester Iyanga-Mambo -- "He offered an apologetic smile" : the politeness of apologetic gestures / Andreas H. Jucker.
Abstract "Politeness and impoliteness are not just expressed by words. People communicate polite and impolite attitudes towards each other through their intonation, tone of voice, their facial expressions, their gestures, the positioning of their bodies towards each other, and so on. This volume brings together eleven empirical studies that investigate these various modalities of im/politeness across signed, spoken and written languages, plus a detailed introductory chapter that establishes a framework for the multimodal investigation of im/politeness. The papers cover a range of languages and cultures, including Swiss German Sign Language, Catalan Sign Language, English (as a native language and as a lingua franca), Korean, Catalan, Persian, Japanese and Spanish. Using a range of data sources and state-of-the art methodologies, the papers reveal that these multimodal features are essential aspects of im/politeness across different languages, cultures and modes of interaction. Put together, the findings from these studies lay the groundwork for a new understanding of im/politeness which is fundamentally multimodal"-- Provided by publisher.
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