Impoliteness and power dynamics in intimate interactions: An analysis of Joe Blann’s ‘Things We Had’

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Language and Literature Pub Date : 2021-07-27 DOI:10.1177/09639470211034283

Lina Mourad

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Abstract

Joe Blann’s (2011) comic ‘Things We had’ is a complex and nuanced multimodal realisation of a tense interaction between a couple, rendered through the subtle interplay of narration, panel composition and dialogue. The tug of war and blame game the couple engage in are rife with instances of impoliteness. Drawing on Culpeper’s (2011a, 2015b) impoliteness framework and an integrative pragmatics approach, this article examines the sophisticated multimodal realisation of impoliteness and power dynamics, with a particular focus on the subtle forms of implicational impoliteness and intricate impoliteness patterning used in the fictional interaction. In doing so, it analyses the interplay between impoliteness and power dynamics in the exchange, highlighting the importance of impoliteness analysis in revealing the fluid relational power dynamics underlying the couple’s interaction. This is accompanied by an analysis of the key affective and interactional role of impoliteness in driving the exchange between the couple. Impoliteness, along with the evaluative negative affect it involves, is shown to be instrumental in the couple’s struggle for interactional power in the course of the interaction, and also more broadly, in their negotiation of relational power within the relationship.

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亲密互动中的不礼貌与权力动力学——对乔·布兰的《我们拥有的东西》的分析

乔·布兰(Joe Blann, 2011)的漫画《我们拥有的东西》(Things We had)是一对夫妇之间紧张互动的复杂而微妙的多模式实现，通过叙事、小组构图和对话的微妙相互作用来呈现。这对夫妇之间的拉锯战和相互指责充满了不礼貌的例子。借鉴Culpeper (2011a, 2015b)的不礼貌框架和综合语用学方法，本文研究了不礼貌和权力动力学的复杂多模态实现，特别关注了虚构互动中使用的隐含不礼貌的微妙形式和复杂的不礼貌模式。在此过程中，它分析了交换中不礼貌与权力动态之间的相互作用，强调了不礼貌分析在揭示夫妻互动背后的流动关系权力动态方面的重要性。本文还分析了不礼貌在推动夫妻之间交流中的关键情感和互动作用。不礼貌，连同它所包含的评价性负面影响，被证明是夫妻在互动过程中争夺互动权力的工具，更广泛地说，是他们在关系中谈判关系权力的工具。

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期刊介绍： Language and Literature is an invaluable international peer-reviewed journal that covers the latest research in stylistics, defined as the study of style in literary and non-literary language. We publish theoretical, empirical and experimental research that aims to make a contribution to our understanding of style and its effects on readers. Topics covered by the journal include (but are not limited to) the following: the stylistic analysis of literary and non-literary texts, cognitive approaches to text comprehension, corpus and computational stylistics, the stylistic investigation of multimodal texts, pedagogical stylistics, the reading process, software development for stylistics, and real-world applications for stylistic analysis. We welcome articles that investigate the relationship between stylistics and other areas of linguistics, such as text linguistics, sociolinguistics and translation studies. We also encourage interdisciplinary submissions that explore the connections between stylistics and such cognate subjects and disciplines as psychology, literary studies, narratology, computer science and neuroscience. Language and Literature is essential reading for academics, teachers and students working in stylistics and related areas of language and literary studies.