Beyond politeness

Q2 Arts and Humanities

Linguistics in the Netherlands Pub Date : 2023-11-03 DOI:10.1075/avt.00086.mul

Gijs Mulder, Patricia Sánchez Carrasco

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Abstract

Abstract Here we investigate the use of the politeness marker por favor ‘please’ in a corpus of contemporary Spanish dialogues from film scripts and literary dialogues. We argue that por favor is in fact only occasionally used as an expression of politeness. Apart from these uses, we distinguish between cases where por favor functions as a marker of illocutionary force and other discourse functions, that include the expression of impatience and disapproval. While the formulaic use of por favor is mainly limited to routine situations in the public sphere, the other functions are typical of private conversations. We argue that the ancient use of the expression can account for its contemporary non-polite uses.

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除了礼貌

在此，我们研究了礼貌标记“请”在当代西班牙语电影剧本和文学对话中的使用。我们认为，事实上，好意只是偶尔被用作礼貌的表达。除了这些用法之外，我们还区分了“不赞成”作为言外力量的标志和其他话语功能的情况，包括表达不耐烦和不赞成。虽然“请帮忙”的公式化用法主要局限于公共领域的日常情况，但其他功能则是典型的私人谈话。我们认为，这种表达的古代用法可以解释它在当代的非礼貌用法。

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Linguistics in the Netherlands Arts and Humanities-Language and Linguistics

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期刊介绍： Linguistics in the Netherlands is a series of annual publications, sponsored by the Dutch Linguistics Association (Algemene Vereniging voor Taalwetenschap) and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company since Volume 8 in 1991. Each volume contains a careful selection through peer review of papers presented at the annual meeting of the society. The aim of the annual meeting is to provide members with an opportunity to report on their work in progress. Each volume presents an overview of research in different fields of linguistics in the Netherlands containing articles on phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax and semantics.