1st Edition
(Im)politeness and Multimodality Character Interaction in Modern Family
By Chun Liu
Copyright 2026
90 Pages
14 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
90 Pages
14 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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This book examines multimodal (im)politeness in telecinematic fiction and its humorous effects for viewers, offering new insights into the forms, meanings, and functions of (im)politeness in contemporary popular culture and audiovisual media.
The volume develops an integrated analytical framework that brings together models of (im)politeness, the pragmatics of fiction, and a social semiotic... Read more
Chapter 1 Introduction, Chapter 2 (Im)politeness and the pragmatics of fiction, Chapter 3 A social semiotic approach to multimodal communication, Chapter 4 Data and methodology, Chapter 5 Situated multimodal (im)politeness in interaction, Chapter 6 Discussion, Chapter 7 Conclusions, Primary source, References, Index
Biography
Chun Liu is a visiting research associate in Linguistics at the School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics, SOAS, University of London. She is also a linguistics consultant and academic adviser.
