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1.1 The scope of this book |
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1.1.1 Why analyse two English-speaking cultural contexts? |
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3 | (2) |
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1.2 A note on the transcription conventions |
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1.3 A note on the terminology used |
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1.4 The research questions |
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1.5 The structure of the book |
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Chapter 2 Meanwhile in the world of (im)politeness |
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2.1 Traditional approaches to politeness and impoliteness |
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2.1.1 Classic politeness theories and major critique of Brown and Levinson's model |
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12 | (4) |
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2.1.2 A note on the onset of linguistic impoliteness research |
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16 | (1) |
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2.2 (Im)politeness in the era of discursive approaches |
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17 | (11) |
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2.2.1 In search of a definition of (im)politeness |
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22 | (2) |
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2.2.2 First-order and second-order concepts |
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24 | (2) |
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2.2.3 The metapragmatics of (im)politeness |
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26 | (2) |
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2.3 The view of (im)politeness taken in this research |
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28 | (3) |
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Chapter 3 Data: From corpora to reality television to interviews |
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3.1 Corpora: The British National Corpus {BNQ and the Macquarie Dictionary database of Australian English (Ozcorp) |
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31 | (4) |
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3.2 Reality television: Introducing Big Brother |
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35 | (9) |
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3.2.1 Big Brother: The format and some local differences |
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37 | (4) |
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3.2.2 Big Brother Australia 2012 and Big Brother UK 2012 |
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41 | (3) |
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3.3 Reality television, performance and real life |
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44 | (3) |
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3.4 Reality television, (genuine) impoliteness, entertainment and (failed) humour |
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47 | (6) |
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3.4.1 Big Brother. An impoliteness-oriented context? |
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51 | (2) |
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3.5 Qualitative interviewing |
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3.5.1 The use of qualitative interviewing in this research |
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57 | (2) |
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59 | (2) |
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Chapter 4 Conversational humour: Jocular verbal behaviours |
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4.1 Overview of approaches to teasing -- the epitome of jocular verbal behaviours |
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62 | (4) |
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4.2 A note on the intracultural and intercultural research into humour |
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66 | (2) |
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4.3 Jocular face-threatening and face-supportive acts |
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4.3.1 Potentiality and genuineness (context and non-verbal cues) |
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70 | (3) |
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4.4 Production-evaluation model |
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4.4.1 Impolite jocular behaviour |
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4.4.2 Non-impolite jocular behaviour |
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76 | (1) |
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4.4.3 Non-polite jocular behaviour |
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77 | (1) |
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4.4.4 Polite jocular behaviour |
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78 | (1) |
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4.5 A corpus-assisted study of teasing: Evidence from the BNC and Ozcorp |
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4.5.1 Teasing how? Ways of doing teasing |
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80 | (3) |
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4.5.2 Teasing why? Functions of teasing |
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83 | (2) |
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4.5.3 Teasing and what then? After-teases |
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85 | (3) |
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Chapter 5 Jocular verbal behaviours in Australian and British cultural contexts |
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5.1 Jocularity, cultural values and interactional preferences |
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92 | (16) |
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5.1.1 Nor taking yourself too seriously |
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5.1.3 Taking the piss/mickey out of someone and rubbishing your mates |
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5.2 Public offence and/vs personal offence |
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5.2.1 The preferred reaction |
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113 | (5) |
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5.2.2 Laughter and funniness in relation to public offence |
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118 | (5) |
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123 | (2) |
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Chapter 6 Frontstage and backstage reactions to jocularity |
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125 | (24) |
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6.1 Goffman, the presentation of self and reality television |
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125 | (4) |
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6.2 Frontstage and backstage in the Big Brother house |
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129 | (3) |
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6.3 From frontstage to backstage, from mock impoliteness to impoliteness |
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132 | (15) |
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6.3.1 Big Brother Australia: "Everything he says to me it's like he stabs me in the face" |
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133 | (7) |
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6.3.2 Big Brother UK: "[ S]he keeps winding me up about what happened the other day" |
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140 | (7) |
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147 | (2) |
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Chapter 7 Negative evaluations of jocularity |
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149 | (24) |
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150 | (3) |
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153 | (17) |
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7.2.1 Similarities in the Australian and British Big Brother houses |
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154 | (8) |
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7.2.2 Differences between the Australian and British Big Brother houses |
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162 | (6) |
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7.2.3 Division of the specific issues into categories |
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168 | (2) |
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170 | (3) |
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Chapter 8 Interviewees' attitudes to jocularity |
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173 | (72) |
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8.1 The metapragmatics of jocular verbal behaviours |
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173 | (3) |
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8.2 Different perspectives in the interviewees' evaluations |
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176 | (4) |
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8.2.1 From the target's point of view |
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178 | (1) |
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8.2.2 From the instigator's point of view |
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179 | (1) |
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8.2.3 From the non-participant's point of view |
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179 | (1) |
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180 | (3) |
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8.4 Tendencies in interviewees' evaluations of jocularity and impoliteness in the Big Brother houses |
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183 | (44) |
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8.4.1 Two-party Australian interaction: "The treadmill" |
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184 | (22) |
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8.4.2 Multi-party British interaction: "McDonald's on the pyramid" |
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206 | (21) |
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8.5 Multi-party Australian-British interaction: Intracultural and intercultural evaluations |
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227 | (14) |
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8.5.1 Intracultural evaluations |
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229 | (5) |
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8.5.2 Intercultural evaluations |
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234 | (7) |
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241 | (4) |
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245 | (6) |
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9.1 Contributions to the field |
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245 | (3) |
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9.2 Future research directions and raised questions |
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248 | (3) |
| References |
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251 | (22) |
| Subject index |
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