Titlebook: Methodology in Politeness Research; Elena Landone Book 2022 The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Sp

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Elena LandoneOffers a specific methodological focus on politeness as well as a look into the field’s future agenda.Proposes an action-research approach grounding academic research into daily situations.Offers repr

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Where is Politeness?This chapter offers a panorama of politeness as a specialized field within the pragmatic perspective of linguistics. Metaphorically, it is a first approach to deep waters, in order to support the researcher focussing on the interconnected levels where politeness is in action.

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What Do Speech Acts Offer as Discursive Practices?It follows from the previous chapter that the epistemological evolution of politeness studies in recent decades offers the researcher different theoretical frameworks and methodological perspectives, often derived from cognate disciplines: politeness is not simply linguistics, because of the fact that the . of language centres on people.

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How Complex is the System?Some of the issues discussed in the previous chapters converge in suggesting that politeness has traits of complex systems. A specific reflection on variables and system levels in politeness can give an idea of the methodological impact of concepts such as relations, emergence, and adaptation, which are recurrent in the recent literature.

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How Relative is Everyday Politeness?The research issues addressed in the present chapter originate from the specific nature of the pragmatic approach to language: how do speakers become so competent in the complex, everyday systems of interaction? And why is it so problematic for the researcher to study the speakers’ knowledge of everyday practice?

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How Does the Mind Frame?The last chapter in Part I of this volume rounds up the discussion of the relevant methodological consequences emerging from the theoretical state of the art. As in the previous chapter, the following pages deal with how speakers reach a mutual understanding of politeness in spite of the great diversity of their perspectives and evaluations.