Politeness, Impoliteness and Ritual Kádár Hardback Cambridge University Press

Politeness, Impoliteness and RitualMaintaining the Moral Order in Interpersonal Interaction\nAuthor(s): Dniel Z. Kdr\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9781107052185, 978-1107052185\nSynopsis\nRitual is popularly associated with ceremonies, though in real life it plays a significantly more important role, reinforcing what people perceive as the appropriate moral order of things, or challenging what they perceive as the inappropriate flow of events. This book introduces the reader to how people use ritual in interpersonal interaction and the interface that exists between ritual and politeness and impoliteness. As rituals have a large impact on the life of people and communities, the way in which they use politeness and impoliteness in a ritual action significantly influences the way in which the given ritual is perceived. Politeness, Impoliteness and Ritual examines this complex relationship by settin.