Politeness Metapragmatics: Inductive Research, Multimodality and Critical Theory

by Lucien Brown and Soung-U Kim

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3031816420
• ISBN13: 9783031816420
• Release Date: May 2025
• Publisher: Springer