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dc.contributor.authorHaugh, Michael
dc.contributor.authorBousfield, Derek
dc.date.accessioned2017-05-03T15:00:06Z
dc.date.available2017-05-03T15:00:06Z
dc.date.issued2012
dc.date.modified2013-06-17T00:07:25Z
dc.identifier.issn03782166
dc.identifier.doi10.1016/j.pragma.2012.02.003
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10072/47866
dc.description.abstractMockimpolitenessinEnglish has generally been approached in the context of theorising politeness or impoliteness. In this paper we undertake a cross-cultural, intra-English language sociopragmatic exploration of the way in which behaviour such as 'banter' is manifested, co-constructed and manipulated for social bonding purposes in both AustralianandBritish varieties of English. The analysis focuses on explicating two particular interactional practices of banter, jocularmockeryandjocularabuse, in male-only interpersonal interactions in (North West) Britain and Australia, and comparing the topics of such mockeryandabuse. It is argued that jocularmockeryandjocularabuse very often occasion evaluations of mockimpoliteness, that is evaluations of potentially impolite behaviour as non-impolite, rather than politeness or impoliteness per se, and that these evaluations arise from a shared ethos that places value on "not taking yourself too seriously". It is also suggested such evaluations are cumulative and differentially distributed in multi-party interactions. For these reasons we suggest the mockimpoliteness constitutes an social evaluation in its right rather than constituting subsidiary form of either politeness or impoliteness.
dc.description.peerreviewedYes
dc.description.publicationstatusYes
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dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherElsevier
dc.publisher.placeNetherlands
dc.relation.ispartofstudentpublicationN
dc.relation.ispartofpagefrom1099
dc.relation.ispartofpageto1114
dc.relation.ispartofissue9
dc.relation.ispartofjournalJournal of Pragmatics
dc.relation.ispartofvolume44
dc.rights.retentionY
dc.subject.fieldofresearchDiscourse and Pragmatics
dc.subject.fieldofresearchCognitive Sciences
dc.subject.fieldofresearchLinguistics
dc.subject.fieldofresearchPhilosophy
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode200403
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode1702
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode2004
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode2203
dc.titleMock impoliteness, jocular mockery and jocular abuse in Australian and British English
dc.typeJournal article
dc.type.descriptionC1 - Articles
dc.type.codeC - Journal Articles
gro.facultyArts, Education & Law Group, School of Languages and Linguistics
gro.rights.copyright© 2012 Elsevier B.V.. This is the author-manuscript version of this paper. Reproduced in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher. Please refer to the journal's website for access to the definitive, published version.
gro.date.issued2012
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gro.griffith.authorHaugh, Michael B.


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