Impoliteness recycled: Subject ellipsis in Modern Russian complaint discourse  

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Perelmutter, Renee

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Journal of Pragmatics: An Interdiciplinary Journal of Language Studies vol. 42 no. 12 (Dec. 2010), page 3214–3231.
Topik: Impoliteness Relational work Complaint discourse Reported speech Modern Russian Subject ellipsis Distancing
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(Im)politeness is usually discussed in context of an ongoing discourse situation. In this article, I show that relational work is not limited to a single conversation: specifically, the impact of a face attack can carry over to subsequent conversations. During a face attack, one of the options for the hearer is to remain silent, not defending his/her face (Culpeper, 1996:354). This option might be used when the offender is significantly more powerful than the hearer; the power differential sharply restricts the hearer’s options for defending face (Culpeper et al., 2003:1562; Austin, 1990:279; Bousfield and Locher, 2008:8–9). However, in some cases the hearer does not simply accept the damage to his/her face. Unable to confront the offender directly, the offended restores face by complaining to peers and soliciting their commiseration and approval. Using Modern Russian data, I show how an offensive conversation between two interlocutors (usually amother-in-lawand a daughter-in-law)is recycledwhen the offended later complains at an online support group. The complainer often uses a special construction with subject ellipsis to introduce the reported offensive discourse. By using this construction, the offended retroactively and symbolically attacks the offender, thus repairing damage to face.

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