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TY - CONF
T1 - Am I politic?
T2 - PALA 2015
AU - Murphy, Sean Edward
PY - 2015
Y1 - 2015
N2 - This paper reports on a study of (im)politeness in soliloquies in Shakespeare’s plays. Iargue that classic theories of politeness such as Brown and Levinson (1987) cannot fullyaccount for politeness phenomena in soliloquies. There is therefore a need for a modelof self-politeness such as that proposed by Chen (2001) which can compensate for someof the deficiencies in the Brown and Levinson model. I apply Chen’s model tosoliloquies and provide examples of self-politeness output strategies. Shakespeare’scharacters use a variety of impolite and self-impolite forms in their self-talk, which Idiscuss using Culpeper’s (2011) typology of conventionalised impolite formulae. Iconclude that aspects of soliloquies can be described in terms of self-politeness; that themotive for soliloquy may be a threat to self-face as soliloquies often involve internalconflict; and that for Shakespeare impoliteness proved to be a particularly useful devicein soliloquy.
AB - This paper reports on a study of (im)politeness in soliloquies in Shakespeare’s plays. Iargue that classic theories of politeness such as Brown and Levinson (1987) cannot fullyaccount for politeness phenomena in soliloquies. There is therefore a need for a modelof self-politeness such as that proposed by Chen (2001) which can compensate for someof the deficiencies in the Brown and Levinson model. I apply Chen’s model tosoliloquies and provide examples of self-politeness output strategies. Shakespeare’scharacters use a variety of impolite and self-impolite forms in their self-talk, which Idiscuss using Culpeper’s (2011) typology of conventionalised impolite formulae. Iconclude that aspects of soliloquies can be described in terms of self-politeness; that themotive for soliloquy may be a threat to self-face as soliloquies often involve internalconflict; and that for Shakespeare impoliteness proved to be a particularly useful devicein soliloquy.
KW - soliloquies
KW - self-politeness
KW - self-face
KW - impoliteness
M3 - Conference paper
SP - 1
EP - 19
Y2 - 15 July 2015 through 18 July 2015
ER -