介绍
‘The Pragmatics of Politeness is a fascinating journey through the past thirty years of politeness research, written in a clear and insightful manner. Yet this book is more than simply an account of the evolution of the field. It is the personal deposition of the authors views about politeness as they have been shaped and refined over the past thirty years. A delight to read, and full of critical insights about a wealth of phenomena including defaults, speech acts and indirectness, intra-and inter-cultural variation and the history of English politeness, The Pragmatics of Politeness is destined to become a new classic in the field of (im)politeness research”
—Marina Terkourafi, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
This readable book presents a new general theoretical understanding of politeness. It offers an account of a wide range of politeness phenomena in English, illustrated by hundreds of examples of actual language use taken largely from authentic British and American sources. Building on his earlier pioneering work on politeness, Geoffrey Leech takes a pragmatic approach that is based on the controversial notion that politeness is communicative altruism. Leechs 1983 book, Principles of Pragmatics, introduced the now widely-accepted distinction between pragmalinguistic and sociopragmatic aspects of politeness; this book returns to the pragmalinguistic side, somewhat neglected in recent work. Drawing on neo-Gricean thinking, Leech rejects the prevalent view that it is impossible to apply the terms polite or impolite’ to linguistic phenomena.
Leech covers all major speech acts that are either positively or negatively associated with politeness, such as requests, apologies, compliments, offers, criticisms, good wishes, condolences, congratulations, agreement, and disagreement. Additional chapters deal with impoliteness and the related phenomena of irony (""mock politeness"") and banter (""mock impoliteness""), and with the role of politeness in the learning of English as a second language. A final chapter takes a fascinating look at more than a thousand years of history of politeness in the English language.
Geoffrey Leech is Emeritus Professor of English Linguistics at Lancaster University, where he has been a faculty member for over 40 years. He has published many books and articles in the fields of English grammar, stylistics, pragmatics, semantics, and corpus linguistics. He was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 1987.
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