综合语用学和不礼貌/礼貌理论

Integrative Pragmatics and (Im)politeness Theory

本文探讨语用学对不礼貌/礼貌理论发展的意义,分析不礼貌/礼貌研究方法朝经典研究和话语研究相融合的发展趋势。首先梳理支撑这一转变的综合语用学原则,以案例分析阐述这些原则的实际运用。案例语料选自英国真人秀《名人老大哥》中的对话片段。分析融互动语用学和语料库语用学多维视角,意在强调不礼貌/礼貌理论的语用学基础,阐述建构多维度视角的综合理论框架的必要性。

This paper explores the role that pragmatics has played in the development of(im)politeness theory,and the recent move towards a middle ground that integrates classic and discursive approaches to(im)politeness.It starts with outlining the key tenets of integrative pragmatics that afford such a move,before illustrating how these can be implemented through a case study focusing on an incident in Big Brother UK.The analyses draw from multiple methods,including those of interactional pragmatics and corpus pragmatics,with the aim to both highlight the fundamentally pragmatic basis of(im)politeness,as well as the need for a nuanced and complex theorisation that integrates multiple perspectives and methods of analysis.