Impoliteness - Using Language to Cause Offence

Informationen zum Autor Jonathan Culpeper is based in the Department of Linguistics and English Language at Lancaster University. Klappentext A fascinating account of how impolite behaviour works. Zusammenfassung When is language considered 'impolite'? Is impolite language only used for anti-social purposes? What is the difference between 'impoliteness' and 'rudeness'? Grounded in naturally-occurring language data and drawing on findings from linguistic pragmatics and social psychology! Jonathan Culpeper provides a fascinating account of how impolite behaviour works. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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.

Product details

• Authors: Jonathan Culpeper, Jonathan (Lancaster University) Culpeper
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 06.01.2011
• EAN: 9780521689779
• ISBN: 978-0-521-68977-9
• No. of pages: 308
• Series: Studies in Interactional Sociolinguistics; Studies in Interactional Sociolinguistics
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other languages / Other literatures; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology