Reviewed by Zaenal Arifin
Tulungagung, 3 October 2013
Rosina
Marquez Reiter. Linguistic Politeness in Britain and Uruguay: A Contrastive Study of Requests and Apologies
If
you are planing or, right now, doing a pragmatic study, especially that dealing
with ‘politeness’, more specifically to ‘requests’ and ‘apologies’, then, this
book should be a really helpful reference you can use.
What’s Good?
I
think this book is really written systematically, and so-academic, and yes, the
writer says that this work is based on her academic PhD study. That makes each
chapter in this book is so well-organized like original academic writing. For
example, the book begins with the explanation of significant theories concerning with the topic: politeness and speech act theory, requests
and apologies. On the next chapter, I
found ‘Structure of the Study and
Methodology’, followed with ‘The
Findings: Request’ and The ‘Findings:
Apologies’. Then, it is closed with conclusion
and appendix.
Reviewing
above description, I can imagine how really helpful the book for you in
accomplishing your study of pragmatics or linguistic politeness.
Contents
Below
is the ‘content’ you can review.
Chapter 1
Politeness
theory
1.1 On the
history of the term
1.2
Politeness: social or individual entity?
1.3
Perspectives on politeness
1.4 Lakoff’s
rules of politeness
1.5 Leech’s
Principles and Maxims of Interaction
1.6 Brown
and Levinson’s Theory of Politeness
1.6.1
Politeness strategies
1.7
Criticisms of Brown and Levinson’s model
1.7.1 The
principle of rationality
1.7.2
Goffman’s notion of ‘face’
1.7.3 The
universality of ‘face’
1.7.4
Facework
1.7.5
Concluding remarks
Chapter 2
Speech act
theory and politeness: Requests and apologies
2.1
Introduction
2.2 The
speech act of requesting
2.2.1 Form
and function of requests
2.2.2
Indirect requests
2.3 The
speech act of apologising
2.3.1 Form
and function of apologies
2.3.2
Concluding remarks
Chapter 3
Structure of
the study and methodology
3.1
Introduction
3.2 The structure
of the study
3.2.1
Population
3.2.2 The
instrument
3.3 The
pilot test
3.3.1 The
population of the pilot test
3.3.2 The
pilot study and the modifications to the instrument
3.4 Data
collection and procedure
3.4.1
Recruiting the informants
3.4.2 Other
methodologies considered
3.4.3 Data
collection
3.4.4
Methodological considerations: from the discourse completion test to the
open role-play
3.5 Data
analysis: the procedure
3.5.1
Blum-Kulka et al.’s coding scheme for request head acts
3.5.2 The
coding scheme: request head acts
3.5.3 The
coding scheme: apologies
3.6
Transcription conventions
Chapter 4
The Findings:
Requests
4.1
Introduction
4.2 Request
strategies
4.2.1 The
use of impositives
4.2.2 The
use of conventional indirectness
4.2.3 The
perspective of conventionally indirect requests
4.2.4 The
use of non-conventional indirectness
4.2.5 Divergent
situations
4.3 Gender
analysis of the main request strategies
4.3.1 Same
gender interactions: the case of males
4.3.2 Same
gender interactions: the case of females
4.3.3
Cross-gender interactions
4.4 Request
modification
4.4.1
External modification
4.4.2
Internal modifications
4.5
Concluding remarks
Chapter 5
The
Findings: Apologies
5.1
Introduction
5.2 Apology
strategies
5.2.1 Explicit
expression of apology
5.2.2 Taking
responsibility
5.2.3
Explanation
5.2.4 Offer
of repair/restitution
5.2.5 Promise
of forbearance
5.3
Situational parameters and explanatory variables
5.4 Gender
differences and apologies
5.5
Concluding remarks
Chapter 6
Conclusion
6.1
Introductory remarks
6.2 Requests
6.2.1 The
conventional indirectness category
6.3
Apologies
6.4 Some
pedagogical considerations
6.5 Implications
for further research
Appendix
Rosina Marquez Reiter. Linguistic Politeness in Britain and Uruguay: A Contrastive Study of Requests and Apologies
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