eprintid: 33066
rev_number: 19
eprint_status: archive
userid: 7297
dir: disk0/00/03/30/66
datestamp: 2023-03-22 14:42:39
lastmod: 2023-04-11 16:03:14
status_changed: 2023-03-22 14:42:39
type: article
metadata_visibility: show
creators_name: Jucker, Andreas H.
creators_name: Landert, Daniela
title: The diachrony of im/politeness in American and British movies (1930-2019)
subjects: ddc-400
subjects: ddc-420
divisions: i-90200
divisions: i-999999
keywords: Impoliteness, Movies, Movie corpus
cterms_swd: Höflichkeit
cterms_swd: Diachronie
cterms_swd: Corpus
abstract: In this paper, we use a relatively new source of data, the Movie Corpus, to explore the common stereotype that politeness standards keep falling. In this data, which contains transcripts of movies from 1930 to 2019, we trace a range of elements that have relatively clear default politeness or impoliteness values (e.g. please, could you and a range of title nouns versus swear words). And we introduce a terminological distinction between conduct politeness and etiquette politeness. The results suggest a complex picture of some “polite” expressions that are indeed declining (e.g. title nouns, would you (please)) while others are rising (e.g. can you (please)). Many “impolite” swear words have increased considerably over the last five decades. We carefully discuss the reliability of these results, which fully depend on the composition of the corpus and its consistency over time as well as on the reliability of the chosen elements as im/politeness indicators. We compare the results for American/Canadian and for British/Irish movies (following the distinction of the
Movie Corpus), and we discuss the extent to which movies can be taken as indicators of language change in general.
date: 2023
publisher: Elsevier
id_scheme: DOI
id_number: 10.11588/heidok.00033066
official_url: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pragma.2023.02.020
ppn_swb: 1842029649
own_urn: urn:nbn:de:bsz:16-heidok-330661
language: eng
bibsort: JUCKERANDRTHEDIACHRO202305
full_text_status: public
publication: Journal of Pragmatics
volume: 209
place_of_pub: Amsterdam [u.a.]
pagerange: 123-141
issn: 0378-2166 (Druck-Ausg.)
edition: Zweitveröffentlichung
citation:   Jucker, Andreas H. ; Landert, Daniela  (2023) The diachrony of im/politeness in American and British movies (1930-2019).  Journal of Pragmatics, 209.  pp. 123-141.  ISSN 0378-2166 (Druck-Ausg.)     
document_url: https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserver/33066/1/jucker_landert_2023.pdf