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