Translating Politeness Across Englishes

Table Of Contents

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• About the author
• About the book
• This eBook can be cited
• Table of Contents
• Table of Abbreviations
• Index of Tables
• Table of Figures
• Acknowledgements
• Foreword
• Prologue: The Princess and the Pea
• 1. Introduction
• 2. Is politeness translatable?
• 3. What do we do when we translate politeness?
• 4. What do we translate when we translate politeness?
• 4.1 Brief review of politeness models
• 4.2 Politeness – A Working Definition
• Interlude: Who are the princesses and what’s beneath their bedding?
• 5. Empirical research: Politeness across Englishes
• 5.1 Framework for analysis of linguistic data
• 5.2 Assessing lingua-cultural biographies of Englishes
• 5.2.1 Conflicts
• 5.2.2 Conclusions and implications for the empirical investigation
• 5.3 Main subhypotheses
• 5.4 Challenges and limitations of the study
• 5.5 Survey Analysis196
• 5.5.1 Data collection
• 5.5.2 Situation 1 – Speech act production & request for information
• 5.5.3 Situation 2 – Speech act production & request for alternative action
• 5.5.4 Situation 3 – Speech act production & request for action
• 5.5.5 Situation 4 – Speech act perception & request for action
• 5.5.6 Situation 5 – Speech act perception & request for information
• 5.5.7 Situation 6 – Speech act perception & request for (alternative, repeated) action
• 5.5.8 Summary and preliminary conclusions
• 5.6 Customer support accounts on Twitter
• 5.6.1 Tweets sent from customer support accounts
• 5.6.2 Tweets sent to customer support accounts
• 5.6.3 Summary and conclusions
• Epilogue: Happily ever after? The future of the princess and the pea
• 6. Prospective for Further Research on Politeness Strategy Patterns
• 6.1 Objective and scope
• 6.2 Integrating aspects of CAT tools and Translation Memory Systems
• 6.3 Integrating aspects of business intelligence systems and biocybernetics
• 6.4 Integrating aspects of fuzzy logic as part of biocybernetics
• 6.5 Overview: Macroprocesses
• 6.6 Processes in detail
• 6.6.1 Creating a reference database on level 1 of the data warehouse
• 6.6.2 Request core processing module on level 1 of the data warehouse
• 6.6.3 Semantic focus processing module on level 1 of the data warehouse
• 6.6.4 Survey result processing module on level 1 of the data warehouse
• 6.6.5 Graphical summary of procedures on level 1 of the data warehouse
• 6.6.6 Procedures on level 2 (bottom tier) of the data warehouse
• 6.6.7 Procedures on level 3 and 4 of the data warehouse
• Conclusion: My politeness, your politeness … our politeness?
• Appendix
• A.1 Inventory of modality types and modal expressions
• A.2 Inventory of request strategies, perspectives, and downgraders
• A.3 Survey scans
• Bibliography
• Index
• Series index