Van Houlten’s Impoliteness in John Green’s Novel “The Fault in our Stars”
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.31973/aj.v2i144.4036Keywords:
Impoliteness, Culpeper’s ‘Anatomy, face theory, Van Houlten, cruelty, HazelAbstract
Impoliteness is an act that is rejected and refused in the conventions of any society. However, it is utilized occasionally for various hidden motives and not only as an act of threatening others’ faces. This act is ascertained to be systematic according to Culpeper’s ‘Anatomy of impoliteness which is the adopted model in the present study. This model is applied to demonstrate the strategies that John Green adopts to demonstrate Van Houlten’s character that acts impolitely Green’s novel “The Fault in our Stars. The present study intends to reveal the types of impolite strategies that the writer utilizes to indicate this act of impoliteness and it also intend to reveal that impoliteness is a means to express grief, anger, and despair of life when losing our beloved.
Downloads
References
Archer, D., Aijmer, K., Wichmann, A. (2012) Pragmatics. USA: Routledge.
Bousfield, D. (2008). Impoliteness in interaction (Vol. 167). Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
Brown, P., & Levinson, S. C. (1987). Politeness: Some universals in language usage (Vol. 4). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Culpeper, J., Short, M. and Verdonk, P. (eds) (1998). Exploring the Language of Drama. New York: Routledge.
Culpeper, J. (2005). Impoliteness and Entertainment in the Television Quiz Show: The Weakest Link. Journal of Politeness Research. Language, Behaviour, Culture, 1(1). doi:10.1515/jplr.2005.1.1.35
Culpeper, J. (2011). Impoliteness: Using language to cause offence (Vol. 28). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Green, J. (2012). The Fault in Our Stars. USA: Penguin Group.
Jamet, D., Jobert, M. (eds) (2013) Aspect of Linguistic Impoliteness.Britain: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
Mills, S., Drew, P., & Gumperz, J. J. (2003). Gender and politeness. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Langlotz A., Locher M.A., (2012) Ways of communicating emotional stance in online disagreements, “Journal of Pragmatics” no. 44, p. 1591–1606.
The Guardian. https://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/nov/17/review-fault-in-our-stars-john-green Retrieved in 19/12/2019
Vangelisti, Anita L. 2007. “Communicating Hurt.” In: Spitzberg, Brian H. and Wil-liam R. Cupach (eds.). The Dark Side of Interpersonal Communication. 2nd ed. New Jersey; London: Lawrence Erlbaum, 121–142.
Downloads
Published
Issue
Section
License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Copyright and Licensing:
For all articles published in Al-Adab journal, copyright is retained by the authors. Articles are licensed under an open access Creative Commons CC BY 4.0 license, meaning that anyone may download and read the paper for free. In addition, the article may be reused and quoted provided that the original published version is cited. These conditions allow for maximum use and exposure of the work.
Reproducing Published Material from other Publishers: It is absolutely essential that authors obtain permission to reproduce any published material (figures, schemes, tables or any extract of a text) which does not fall into the public domain, or for which they do not hold the copyright. Permission should be requested by the authors from the copyrightholder (usually the Publisher, please refer to the imprint of the individual publications to identify the copyrightholder).
Permission is required for: Your own works published by other Publishers and for which you did not retain copyright.
Substantial extracts from anyones' works or a series of works.
Use of Tables, Graphs, Charts, Schemes and Artworks if they are unaltered or slightly modified.
Photographs for which you do not hold copyright.
Permission is not required for: Reconstruction of your own table with data already published elsewhere. Please notice that in this case you must cite the source of the data in the form of either "Data from..." or "Adapted from...".
Reasonably short quotes are considered fair use and therefore do not require permission.
Graphs, Charts, Schemes and Artworks that are completely redrawn by the authors and significantly changed beyond recognition do not require permission.
Obtaining Permission
In order to avoid unnecessary delays in the publication process, you should start obtaining permissions as early as possible. If in any doubt about the copyright, apply for permission. Al-Adab Journal cannot publish material from other publications without permission.
The copyright holder may give you instructions on the form of acknowledgement to be followed; otherwise follow the style: "Reproduced with permission from [author], [book/journal title]; published by [publisher], [year].' at the end of the caption of the Table, Figure or Scheme.
How to Cite
