politeness

The article examines backhanded compliment, its place in the structure of speech genres, correlation with politeness and linguistic characteristics. It is shown that, from the perspective of intentionality, it is represented by two types: 1) awkward compliments indicating the speaker’s linguistic or emotional incompetence; 2) ‘insults in disguise’.

The article examines the politeness of medical workers – how it is reflected in the genre of reviews on the consumption of medical services published on the Internet. Methodologically, the work fits into the traditions of discourse studies, semantic and stylistic studies. Theoretically, the article is based on the ideas of media linguistics, discourse studies, genre studies, semantic syntax and stylistics.

The article analyzes major linguistic and pragmatic properties of utterances that native Russian speakers classify as ‘zamechanie’ (roughly, critical remark). The purpose of the research is twofold: firstly, to answer the question whether ‘zamechanie’ can be seen as a speech genre and, secondly, to determine its position on the “politeness – anti-politeness” scale. The analysis is based on the data from the Russian National Corpus and recordings of oral speech collected by the author.

The article examines scholarly reviews in terms of communicative categories of politeness and antipoliteness, as well as the strategies associated with them. It offers a generalized description of the scholarly review as a speech genre, highlighting key parameters for analyzing (anti-)politeness: the roles of participants, communicative-pragmatic relations between them, and the conflict potential inherent in the critical evaluation of another scholar’s work. The authors propose adapting G.

The paper deals with tonal and pragmatic characteristics of politeness and anti-politeness expressing benevolent or unfriendly, serious or non-serious attitude to the communicative partner in personal or status discourse. The paper is based on the assumption that there is a genre specificity of politeness expression. An important indicator of the ethno-cultural specificity of politeness is the priority of respectful attitude towards in-group and out-group members. Politeness is a graded communicative phenomenon.