Lay (Im)Politeness Evaluations in Face-To-Face Interaction: A Study of Greek Friendship Groups Living Abroad

This volume brings together work on im/politeness with identities analysis research through the study of lay understandings of im/politeness in face-to-face naturally occurring interactions.

The book features the case study of Greek friendship groups living abroad and their coffee meetings to unpack how individual negotiate explicit and implicit, multimodal evaluations of im/politeness in everyday contexts. Data from audio and video interactional data, participation observation, and playback interviews allows for multi-faceted analysis. The volume combines a conversation-analytic interaction approach to im/politeness with an ethnographic perspective to offer a nuanced, holistic view of different forms of evaluation across a range of daily activities and participation frameworks, with implications for adopting this synthesized framework to elucidate new insights at the intersection of im/politeness and identities research.

This volume will appeal to scholars interested in im/politeness, in such fields as pragmatics, interactional sociolinguistics, and discourse analysis.

Vasiliki Saloustrou is a Lecturer at the Department of English Linguistics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (Greece) and at the Department of Communications, Deree - The American College of Greece.