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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction. What I Am Doing Here, and How I Am Doing It -- 1. Language: The Power We Love to Hate -- 2. The Neutrality of the Status Quo -- 3. "Political Correctness" and Hate Speech: The Word as Sword -- 4. Mad, Bad, and Had: The Anita Hill / Clarence Thomas Narrative(s) -- 5. Hillary Rodham Clinton: What the Sphinx Thinks -- 6. Who Framed "O.J."? -- 7. Ebonics-It's Chronic -- 8. The Story of Ugh -- Notes -- References -- Index

AbstractDonald J. Trump's surprising victory in the 2016 American presidential election requires analysis: what brought it about, and what might it portend? This paper explores these and other questions: how have Trump's victory and his communicative strategies compromised the culture's notions of "truth" – via a continuum from "lie" through "post-truth," "truthiness," and "alternative facts" to "truth"? Is Trump – judging from his language and other communications – really a populist? And how are we to understand his many idiosyncrasies of discourse, as well as his supporters' unwillingness to worry about them?

This collection of 19 papers celebrates the coming of age of the field of politeness studies, now in its 30th year. It begins with an investigation of the meaning of politeness, especially linguistic politeness, and presents a short history of the field of linguistic politeness studies, showing how such studies go beyond the boundaries of conventional linguistic work, incorporating, as they do, non-language insights. The emphasis of the volume is on non-Western languages and the ways linguistic politeness is achieved with them. Many, if not most, studies have focused on Western languages, but the languages highlighted here show new and different aspects of the phenomena.The purpose of linguistic politeness is to aid in successful communication throughout the world, and this volume offers a balance of geographical distribution not found elsewhere, including Japanese, Thai, and Chinese, as well as Greek, Swedish and Spanish. It covers such theoretical topics as face, wakimae, social levels, gender-related differences in language usage, directness and indirectness, and intercultural perspectives.

Editor's Introduction. Author's Introduction. Language and Woman's Place: The Original Text with Annotations by Author. Part 1: Context. 1. Changing Places: Language and Woman's Place in Context, Mary Bucholtz. 2. "Radical Feminist" as Label, Libel, and Laudatory Chant: The Politics of Theoretical Taxonomies in Feminist Linguistics, Bonnie McElhinny. 3. Positioning Ideas and Gendered Subjects: "Women's Language" Revisited, Sally McConnell-Ginet. 4. Language and Woman's Place: Picking Up the Gauntlet, Anna Livia. Part 2: Concepts. 5. Power, Lady, and Linguistic Politeness in