M. Kanter presented Im/polite Matters: Creative Texts and Projects with a power point presentation of Im/politeness: One Hundred Im/polite Days by Marjorie Kanter at the 4th International Conference on Intercultural Pragmatics and Communication (15-17 November 2010). This is an artist’s project meant for reflection and dialogue on communication and incommunication in general and politeness and impoliteness in particular; both within a culture and crossing cultures. The texts were generated and then posted one per day between December 2, 2009 and March 11, 2010 on Tweeter and Facebook (and have become a book ISBN 978-84-614-2674-4) as part of Ms. Kanter’s participation in the London Word Festival. Following the 144 character maximum per entry allowed on Twitter, the 100+2 entries investigate, experiment, create, reflect, document and invite dialogue/participation. These tweets include creative texts, questions, quotes, statements, cartoons, references, film/video, etc. Readers are invited/incited to join in dialogue provoked/sparked by these short texts.

The Tweet portion of the project can be viewed on Authorstream at http://www.authorstream.com/tag/kanter

Other Marjorie Kanter pages specific to Im/Politeness :

Blogspot: http://im-polite100days.blogspot.com
Facebook impoliteness:
http://www.facebook.com/100-Impolite-tweets
Twitter:
http://twitter.com/MarjorieKanter

The CLAN (Corpus of Language & Nature) Research team at Universidad Autónoma de Madrid and the Mouton journal “Intercultural Pragmatics” held the 4th International Conference on Intercultural Pragmatics and Communication (15-17 November 2010).
The conferences and workshops were sponsored by the Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (FFI2010-08959- subprograma FILO) and the Universidad Pontificia de Comillas, in Madrid Spain.