#?!@ in the Workplace
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Expletives as solidarity signals in FTAs on the factory floor
Abstract
Drawing on Politeness Theory and the Community of Practice model, we examine the uses and functions of the expletive fuck in interaction between workers in a New Zealand soap factory work team. The factory team was extensively recorded in their daily interactions to obtain a corpus of 35 h of authentic workplace talk from which a small number of paradigmatic interactions are selected for discussion in this paper. Particular attention is given to the way in which the expletive fuck is used in two face threatening speech acts, direct complaints and refusals, and its contrasting function in the speech act of whingeing. The analysis focuses on the complex socio-pragmatic functions of fuck and its role as an indicator of membership in a specific community of practice.
Author Keywords: Workplace discourse; Complaints; Refusals; Community of practice; Swearing; Face threatening speech acts
The Language in the Workplace Project Research team includes core members Janet Holmes (Director), Maria Stubbe (Research Fellow), Bernadette Vine (Corpus Manager), Meredith Marra (Research Officer), as well as Nicola Daly, Jonathan Newton, Derek Wallace, Pascal Brown and a number of Research Associates. We would like to express our appreciation to the staff at Unilever Australasia who generously allowed us to observe and record their workplace interactions and the Research Assistants who transcribed the data. Particular thanks are due to Megan Ingle who did the fieldwork at the factory, and Tina Chiles, who assisted with the preparation of this article. The research was supported by grants from the Victoria University Research Fund and the New Zealand Foundation for Research Science and Technology.
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Found the above on the web site for the publishing company that publishes the journal I work for. Not much to do the past couple days because the Good Doctor is busy with other things. Pat me on the back, I’ve been creative doing as much work-related as possible, and now I blog. I wish I’d brought more to do, things that would look work-related if someone were to walk by or, if I shut the door, walk in here. Probably there is a hidden camera anyway. I know—paranoid freak! When I was a little girl I was convinced there were cameras in the house. I was sure there were people watching me sit on the toilet and pee. That aside, I’m fascinated by the people scientifically researching the use of fuck in the workplace.
Expletives as solidarity signals in FTAs on the factory floor
Abstract
Drawing on Politeness Theory and the Community of Practice model, we examine the uses and functions of the expletive fuck in interaction between workers in a New Zealand soap factory work team. The factory team was extensively recorded in their daily interactions to obtain a corpus of 35 h of authentic workplace talk from which a small number of paradigmatic interactions are selected for discussion in this paper. Particular attention is given to the way in which the expletive fuck is used in two face threatening speech acts, direct complaints and refusals, and its contrasting function in the speech act of whingeing. The analysis focuses on the complex socio-pragmatic functions of fuck and its role as an indicator of membership in a specific community of practice.
Author Keywords: Workplace discourse; Complaints; Refusals; Community of practice; Swearing; Face threatening speech acts
The Language in the Workplace Project Research team includes core members Janet Holmes (Director), Maria Stubbe (Research Fellow), Bernadette Vine (Corpus Manager), Meredith Marra (Research Officer), as well as Nicola Daly, Jonathan Newton, Derek Wallace, Pascal Brown and a number of Research Associates. We would like to express our appreciation to the staff at Unilever Australasia who generously allowed us to observe and record their workplace interactions and the Research Assistants who transcribed the data. Particular thanks are due to Megan Ingle who did the fieldwork at the factory, and Tina Chiles, who assisted with the preparation of this article. The research was supported by grants from the Victoria University Research Fund and the New Zealand Foundation for Research Science and Technology.
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Found the above on the web site for the publishing company that publishes the journal I work for. Not much to do the past couple days because the Good Doctor is busy with other things. Pat me on the back, I’ve been creative doing as much work-related as possible, and now I blog. I wish I’d brought more to do, things that would look work-related if someone were to walk by or, if I shut the door, walk in here. Probably there is a hidden camera anyway. I know—paranoid freak! When I was a little girl I was convinced there were cameras in the house. I was sure there were people watching me sit on the toilet and pee. That aside, I’m fascinated by the people scientifically researching the use of fuck in the workplace.
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