(Greek) Im/politeness: Predication and evaluation practices

This ethnomethodological study combines CA and MCA to explore the social practices of predicating and evaluating real instances of (non-)linguistic im/politeness, witnessably produced by (Greek) members in a variety of contexts. It locates category-bound predicates that the incumbents themselves invoke or are imputed to them by others, as instances of first-order (im)politeness (Watts 2003) or (im)politeness1 (Eelen 2001). As depositories of common-sense knowledge, MCDs/categories offer a glimpse of the native practices/concepts of im/politeness, but are indexically and occasionedly accomplished by members, consonantly with their mutual accountability and the ‘moral order’ of society (Garfinkel 2002)