The Pragmatics of Hypocrisy

Editors

Sandrine Sorlin | Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3

Tuija Virtanen | Åbo Akademi University

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As a first attempt to date, this book addresses the notion of hypocrisy from a pragmatic perspective and devises a comprehensive model of verbal hypocrisy. The studies included adopt emic and etic approaches in order to contribute jointly towards an understanding of what appears to be a ubiquitous and multifaceted phenomenon. Going beyond hypocrisy as a mere moral vice, this volume establishes its pragmatic space and confronts it with adjacent notions which, unlike hypocrisy, have been subject to pragmatic examination. The Pragmatics of Hypocrisy is of interest to students and scholars in pragmatics, discourse analysis, sociolinguistics, rhetoric, communication and media studies, as well as corpus linguistics, and by its transdisciplinary nature, to researchers in philosophy, sociology, and political science. It is also essential reading for anyone interested in the interplay between language, culture and society, across varieties and registers of English.

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 343] 2024. viii, 268 pp.

Publishing status: Available

https://doi.org/10.1075/pbns.343

Table of Contents

List of contributors | pp. vii–viii

Part I. Introducing and theorizing hypocrisy

Chapter 1. Introduction to hypocrisy

Sandrine Sorlin and Tuija Virtanen | pp. 2–14

Chapter 2. A pragmatic model of hypocrisy

Sandrine Sorlin and Tuija Virtanen | pp. 15–42

Part II. Metapragmatic approaches to hypocrisy

Chapter 3. Politics, religion, and drama: Exploring the metapragmatics of hypocrisy

Mathew Gillings | pp. 44–73

Chapter 4. “Ding ding ding we have a hypocrite!”: The metapragmatics of verbal hypocrisy in discussion forum interaction

Sanna-Kaisa Tanskanen | pp. 74–95

Part III. Hypocrisy and authenticity in political and public discourse

Chapter 5. Hypocrisy, authenticity, and the rhetorical dynamics of populism

Martin Gill | pp. 98–124

Chapter 6. Apology as hypocrisy: Examples from Bill Clinton and Donald Trump

Helena Halmari | pp. 124–160

Part IV. Benign hypocrisy

Chapter 7. Ostensible offers, politeness and sincere hypocrisy

Michael Haugh | pp. 162–186

Chapter 8. Pretending to pretend: Performing “autohypocrisy” in online discourse

Tuija Virtanen | pp. 187–211

Part V. The ubiquity of hypocrisy

Chapter 9. The – mostly – brighter side of hypocrisy and the concept of face

Jim O’Driscoll | pp. 214–230

Chapter 10. A plea for hypocrisy: Pragma-philosophical considerations

Sandrine Sorlin | pp. 231–253

Part VI. Closing

Chapter 11. An epilogue and note on cross-cultural hypocrisy

Jonathan Culpeper | pp. 256–263

Index | pp. 265–268

“The present volume embodies a nice marriage of the etic view of the contributors and the emic descriptions as some authors focus on metapragmatic uses of verbal hypocrisy, offering contextualized and yet replicable research agendas to the research into hypocrisy and politeness research. This volume is recommended reading for students and scholars interested in pragmatics, discourse studies, communication studies, sociology and political science.”

Rong Lei & Yongping Ran, Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, in Journal of Pragmatics 229 (2024).

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