Translating Politeness Across Englishes: The Princess and the Pea

Cover
 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 Englishes5.2.1 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 Analysis
 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) action5.5.8 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 biocybernetics6.4 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 warehouse6.6.7 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