Alternative Approaches to Politeness and Impoliteness

What is it about?

The aim of this Special Issue is to present a variety of analytical concepts and methodologies by which politeness and impoliteness can be examined more innovatively, and which differ from those used in current mainstream politeness research. Over the course of the last four decades, linguistic politeness research has developed into a fully-fledged interdisciplinary field. As the recent publication The Palgrave Handbook of Linguistic (Im)Politeness (Culpeper et al. 2017) has illustrated, politeness researchers have, over the years, drawn on research from outside the realm of linguistic pragmatics, including sociolinguistics, interaction studies, critical discourse analysis and so on. However, in keeping with many other established areas of academic inquiry, politeness research has become dominated by a distinct set of concepts and methodologies.

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