‘Your care and concern are my burden!’
| Autor: | Saeko Fukushima, Wei-Lin Melody Chang |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
| Předmět: |
Cultural Studies
Linguistics and Language Politeness Communication media_common.quotation_subject Field (Bourdieu) Empathy Mandarin Chinese Language and Linguistics language.human_language Developmental psychology Interpersonal relationship Reciprocity (social psychology) language Emic and etic Psychology Social psychology Sociolinguistics media_common |
| Zdroj: | East Asian Pragmatics. 2:1-23 |
| ISSN: | 2055-7760 2055-7752 |
| DOI: | 10.1558/eap.33081 |
| Popis: | While the enactment of gendered identities has been a key focus in the field of sociolinguistics and im/politeness (e.g. Holmes, 1995; Lakoff, 1975; Mills, 2003), research specifically investigating females’ emic understanding in relation to im/politeness has not been paid much attention. Building on prior work on ‘attentiveness’ (Fukushima, 2004, 2009, 2011, 2013, 2015; Fukushima & Haugh, 2014), this article aims to further examine the emic understandings and evaluations of ‘attentiveness’ and ‘empathy’ in relation to ‘im/politeness’ by female speakers of Mandarin Chinese. It is suggested that, although the concepts of attentiveness (zhoudao) and empathy (titie) are intrinsically polite, these two concepts are found to be discursively disputable through the emergence of the three folk notions, meddlesomeness (jipo), familiarity, and reciprocity in the course of metapragmatic interviews. These notions give rise to cultural nuances in the evaluations of im/politeness which are thus grounded in a particular language or culture. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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