Impoliteness: using language to cause offence/

Culpeper, Jonathan,

Impoliteness: using language to cause offence/ Jonathan Culpeper. - Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2011. - xiv, 292 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 263-287) and index.

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.

9780521869676 (hbk.) 9780521689779 (pbk.)


Politeness (Linguistics)
Interpersonal relations.
Linguistics - General

306.44 / CUL/I
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