Facework in role performance, self-politeness and (im)politeness in reviews of academic publications

  • Silvia Kaul de Marlangeon Universidad Nacional de Río Cuarto
Keywords: review genre, role face, politeness, impoliteness, self-politeness

Abstract

The review, located in the final section of specialized journals, is a textual genre typical of scientific discourse that offers critical information about the content of a recent publication. The aim of this paper is to focus on the evaluative function of the review genre, a propitious field for the occurrence of different face-work behaviors: role, self-politeness, politeness, and impoliteness. This paper adopts a discursive-socio-cultural pragmatic perspective to study (im)politeness phenomena: Bravo (2002, 2005 y 2010) and Kaul de Marlangeon (2008 y 2010). In the same way, it employs the evaluation in discourse as its theoretical perspective, principally Appraisal Theory (Martin, 2000; Martin and White, 2005). The corpus was taken from a selection of international journals of Latin American Linguistics written in Spanish during the last decade, particularly RILI (Revista Internacional de Lingüística Iberoamericana), Signos (Estudios de Lingüística), Discurso & Sociedad y Linred (Lingüística en la red), where it is verified the usage of evaluative resources and its interconnection within the text, and the different face-work activities deployed by the reviewer.

Published
15-12-2021