Gender, Politeness and Pragmatic Particles in French
1st Edition
Published on 13. December 2002
X, 251 pages
978-90-272-9620-7 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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.
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Content
- Gender, Politeness and Pragmatic Particles in French
- Editorial page
- Title page
- LCC page
- Table of contents
- Preface and Acknowledgements
- List of abbreviations
- Chapter 1 Introduction
- Notes
- Chapter 2 Discourse markers and pragmatic particles
- Note
- Chapter 3 Establishing and investigating a corpus of spoken French
- Chapter 4 The qualitative analysis
- Notes
- Chapter 5 C'est-à-dire (que)
- Notes
- Chapter 6 Enfin
- Notes
- Chapter 7 Hein
- Notes
- Chapter 8 Quoi
- Notes
- Chapter 9 Conclusion
- Appendix
- References
- Index
- The PRAGMATICS AND BEYOND NEW SERIES
