Derek Bousfield

List of John Benjamins publications in which Derek Bousfield is involved.

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Impoliteness in Interaction

Derek Bousfield

This study concerns the nature of impoliteness in face-to-face spoken interaction. For more than three decades many pragmatic and sociolinguistic studies of interaction have considered politeness to be one central explanatory concept governing and underpinning face-to-face interaction. Politeness'… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 167] 2008. xiii, 281 pp.

Articles

Bousfield, Derek 2013 Face in conflict Journal of Language Aggression and Conflict 1:1, pp. 37–57 | Article

Studies of conflict and conflict resolution rarely concern themselves with the ways in which conflictive situations are triggered. Corsaro and Rizzo (1990), in considering interpersonal conflict and aggression do suggest that conflict begins with one antagonist taking challenging opposition to an… read more

Bousfield, Derek and Dan McIntyre 2011 Chapter 6. Emotion and empathy in Martin Scorsese’s Goodfellas: A case study of the “funny guy” scene Telecinematic Discourse: Approaches to the language of films and television series, Piazza, Roberta, Monika Bednarek and Fabio Rossi (eds.), pp. 105–123 | Article

This chapter examines how the emotion fear is generated through the linguistic, paralinguistic and kinesic actions of multiple characters in the “funny guy” scene from Martin Scorsese’s 1990 film Goodfellas. The scene in question takes place in The Bamboo Lounge restaurant-bar and features Tommy, a… read more