Impoliteness : using language to cause offence / / Jonathan Culpeper.

"When is language considered 'impolite'? Is impolite language only used for anti-social purposes? Can impolite language be creative? What is the difference between 'impoliteness' and 'rudeness'? Grounded in naturally-occurring language data and drawing on findings...

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Superior document:Studies in interactional sociolinguistics ; 28
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Year of Publication:2011
Language:English
Series:Studies in interactional sociolinguistics ; 28.
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Physical Description:xiv, 292 p. :; ill.
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  • Machine generated contents note: Introducing impoliteness; 1. Understanding impoliteness I: face and social norms; 2. Understanding impoliteness II: intentionality and emotions; 3. Impoliteness metadiscourse; 4. Conventionalised formulaic impoliteness and its intensification; 5. Non-conventionalised impoliteness: implicational impoliteness; 6. Impoliteness events: co-texts and contexts; 7. Impoliteness events: functions; 8. Conclusions.