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HIF Player
HIF PlayerLouise MullanyFor years, Professor Louise Mullany – author of Polite: The Art of Communication at Home, at Work and in Public, has been examining how politeness rules our day-to-day lives – whether it’s speaking to colleagues about issues at work, dealing with difficult family members or wondering if you should eat the last piece of pie. In this episode of HIF Player, Prof Mullany explains how a better understanding of the rules and norms of politeness can help us in all aspects of our work, leisure and home lives. Podcast Music by Joseph McDade. This content is free but if you are able to, w...
2025-04-1533 minWord of Mouth
Word of MouthPoliteness with Louise MullanyProfessor Louise Mullany talks to Michael Rosen about politeness, and how it governs our lives, from the behaviour of football managers to the different ways children can embarrass us. Why, in this country at least, is it so mortifying to mistakenly assume someone is pregnant, when in other cultures it's simply thoughtful to book two seats on a plane for a larger person. Starring Michael Rosen as Spanish football manager Unai Emery, the politest man in football.Produced for BBC Audio Bristol by Sally Heaven Subscribe to the Word of Mouth podcast and never miss an episode...
2025-01-3027 minSomething You Should Know
Something You Should KnowWhy Politeness is a Super Power & How to Ace Any Job InterviewWill a medication work better if you believe and expect it to? This episode begins with some compelling evidence that having faith in a medical treatment has a real impact on just how well it works. https://www.betterhealth.vic.gov.au/health/conditionsandtreatments/placebo-effectImagine a world where people are not polite. What would it be like if we weren’t civil to each other and didn’t care? Our willingness to be polite is a cornerstone of our civilization. But Lord knows, we are not all polite all the time. Are women more polite than men? D...
2024-07-2553 minStart the Week
Start the WeekPoliteness and civilityBritish social etiquette might be famed for its liberal use of please and thank you, but civility is very much a European import, according to John Gallagher, professor of Early Modern History at the University of Leeds. As courtiers visited the French and Italian courts in the 16th century they not only learnt new languages but new rules of behaviour too. As the century progressed civility began to be weaponised as travellers sought to distinguish themselves from the ‘barbarous’ foreigners.The lexicographer and Countdown regular Susie Dent explains the etymology of terms like civilised, polite and barbarous. And...
2024-06-1742 minPower-Up With Your Day With A Award-Winning Full Audiobook.
Power-Up With Your Day With A Award-Winning Full Audiobook.Polite by Louise MullanyPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/2/audible/99496to listen full audiobooks. Title: Polite Author: Louise Mullany Narrator: Susie Riddell Format: mp3 Length: 10 hrs and 57 mins Release date: 06-06-24 Ratings: Not rated yet Genres: Etiquette Publisher's Summary: In Polite, Louise shows how the unseen science of politeness governs everything we do, from what we say to how we act, and reveals how a better understanding of the rules and norms of politeness can help us in all aspects of our work, leisure and home lives. And, in doing so, she answers the age-old question... are politeness standards really declining?
2024-06-0610h 57Get Hooked On A Meditative Audiobooks Workshop During A Run.
Get Hooked On A Meditative Audiobooks Workshop During A Run.Hear Polite by Louise MullanyPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/2/audible/99496 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Polite Author: Louise Mullany Narrator: Susie Riddell Format: mp3 Length: 10 hrs and 57 mins Release date: 06-06-24 Ratings: Not rated yet Genres: Etiquette Publisher's Summary: In Polite, Louise shows how the unseen science of politeness governs everything we do, from what we say to how we act, and reveals how a better understanding of the rules and norms of politeness can help us in all aspects of our work, leisure and home lives. And, in doing so, she answers...
2024-06-0610h 57Word of Mouth
Word of MouthThe Art of ApologiesMichael Rosen talks to sociolinguist Louise Mullany about all the ways in which we say sorry. From the sympathetic sorry in the face of bad news, to the polite sorry we say to strangers in the street. Via workplace hierarchies, gender differences, and the nitty-gritty of political apologies. Louise is a Professor of Sociolinguistics at the University of Nottingham and author of 'The Science of Politeness', due out next year.Produced for BBC Audio Bristol by Becky Ripley
2022-08-0227 minPolicingTV
PolicingTVPolicing TV Launch PodcastPolicing TV is a new online platform for video and audio content that aims to provide insightful interviews, debates, and analysis, on policing and criminal justice issues. Policing Insight, CoPaCC and World Class Policing Awards founder Bernard Rix started the project with his UK leg of his Policing Friendship Tour . It is the sister site to https://policinginsight.com/ - with consistent values  aligned to global, progressive, policing guiding content development and the editorial approach.  We have a "soft launch" site which can be seen here https://policing.tv , with official launch sche...
2022-04-0400 minKnowledge, Engaged
Knowledge, EngagedBuilding a More Equal, Diverse and Inclusive World w/ Louise MullanyIn this first episode, director of the Institute, Stephen Meek, speaks to Professor Louise Mullany about the Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) Research Hub and the potential of UoN research to shape our understanding of EDI issues.Knowledge, Engaged is brought to you by The Institute of Policy and Engagement at the University of Nottingham, to bring together the ground-breaking research done at Nottingham and you, the listener. Join us as we explore the work the researchers are doing and how it makes a difference in the world around them.For more information about the...
2021-07-0716 minLexis
LexisEpisode 15 - Dana GablasovaShow notes for Episode 15 Welcome to Episode 15 of the Lexis podcast, our last for the hellscape that has been 2020, in which Jacky, Dan, Lisa and Matthew talk about: Words of the Year Words entering the dictionary Words leaving the dictionary And we talk to Dr Dana Gablasova from Lancaster University about Corpus Linguistics: what it involves what it can offer to students investigating language the ways it can open up questions to explore in data some important recent studies the Corpus in Schools project Dana Gablasova’s Lancaster University page: https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/linguistics/about/people/dana-gablasova Dana’s Tw...
2020-12-3138 min