Impoliteness in Media Discourse

The book presents the issue of impoliteness in media discourse found in television debates, films and computer-mediated communication. The phenomenon is viewed from different theoretical perspectives, namely prosody studies, corpus linguistics, media studies and audiovisual translation, neo-Gricean approaches, reception-oriented investigations and context-bound interpretations. Authors from ten different countries - Sweden, USA, Norway, New Zealand, Mexico, Georgia, France, Poland, India, and UAE - analyse data from nine languages - English, Swedish, Georgian, Polish, Arabic, Persian, French, Croatian and Montenegrin.

List of contents

Impolite prosody in Swedish - Impoliteness in newspaper blog comments - Impolite language and identity - Impoliteness in apologies for a political event - Impoliteness in sports discourse - Reception of impolite political discourse - Face-attack in pre-election campaign - Translation of taboos in Arabic films

About the author

Anna B¿czkowska is associate professor of linguistics at Kazimierz Wielki University in Bydgoszcz (Poland). Her research interests include semantics, pragmatics, translation studies, psycholinguistics and applied linguistics. She is the editor of Linguistics Applied and two book series.

Product details

• Assisted by: Anna B¿czkowska (Editor), Anna Baczkowska (Editor)
• Publisher: Peter Lang
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.01.2017
• EAN: 9783631645109
• ISBN: 978-3-631-64510-9
• No. of pages: 258
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 217 mm x 21 mm
• Weight: 430 g
• Illustrations: 11 Abb.
• Series: Interfaces; Interfaces
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics