Impoliteness: Using Language to Cause Offence

by Culpeper, Jonathan

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A fascinating account of how impolite behaviour works.

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Full title :Impoliteness : Using Language to Cause Offence.

Summary

A fascinating account of how impolite behaviour works.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2011.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Cambridge University Press
Place of Publication:Leiden
Language:eng
Publication Date:2011.

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (308 pages)

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9781139081474, 1139081470, 1283112078, 9781283112079, 9781139079204, 1139079204
oclc:ocn723945709
LC Classification:P299.H66 C85 2011
Dewey Decimal:306.44

Cover; Half-title; Series- title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Figures and tables; Preface; 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; Notes; References; Index.

Subjects

English language -- Honorific Formules de politesse Interpersonal relations Politeness (Linguistics) Pouvoir (Sciences sociales) Power (Social sciences)