Gender, Politeness and Pragmatic Particles in French (Pragmatics & Beyond New Series) - Hardcover

Beeching, Kate

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9027253447 ISBN 13: 9789027253446

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2002

Synopsis

This study aims to investigate politeness in women’s and men’s speech, with a particular focus on the use of c’est-à-dire, enfin, hein and quoi in contemporary spoken French. Politeness is defined as going beyond the notion of the face-threatening act, englobing both everyday ideas of politeness and the creation of sociability in face-to-face interaction.
The pragmatic particles studied are demonstrated to serve both psycholinguistic and sociolinguistic purposes: they lubricate reformulation and contribute to both sociability and social indexation.
The study, which combines qualitative and quantitative analysis, is based on a corpus of spontaneous spoken French, comprising 155,000 words, 95 interviews and subjects ranging in age from 7 to 88 years. The sample contains speakers from a broader range of educational backgrounds than is often the case: a butcher, a video-salesman and a toiletteur canin rub shoulders with counter assistants, teachers and doctors.

About this edition

• Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 9027253447
• ISBN 13: 9789027253446
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 256