The Grammar of Impoliteness

The dominant view in linguistics nowadays is that impoliteness is purely a matter of situational assessments by speech participants. This volume challenges that orthodoxy. Bringing together studies on structures that convey insults, threats and more in a wide range of languages, it shows that there is, in fact, a formal side to impoliteness. The volume reveals shared features of and sources for grammatical expressions of impoliteness, explores ways in which their impolite character can be established and offers new insights into their diachrony.

Info autore

M. Andersson, Uppsala, Sweden; J. Culpeper, Lancaster, UK; R. Giomi, Amsterdam, Netherlands; D. Van Olmen, Lancaster, UK.

Riassunto

The dominant view in linguistics nowadays is that impoliteness is purely a matter of situational assessments by speech participants. This volume challenges that orthodoxy. Bringing together studies on structures that convey insults, threats and more in a wide range of languages, it shows that there is, in fact, a formal side to impoliteness. The volume reveals shared features of and sources for grammatical expressions of impoliteness, explores ways in which their impolite character can be established and offers new insights into their diachrony.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Con la collaborazione di: Marta Andersson (Editore), Jonathan Culpeper (Editore), Jonathan Culpeper et al (Editore), Riccardo Giomi (Editore), Daniel Van Olmen (Editore)
• Editore: De Gruyter
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 03.11.2025
• EAN: 9783111475271
• ISBN: 978-3-11-147527-1
• Pagine: 280
• Illustrazioni: 15 b/w ill., 46 b/w tbl.
• Serie: Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM]
• Categorie: Scienze umane, arte, musica > Scienze linguistiche e letterarie > Linguistica generale e comparata; Pragmatik, Grammatik, Historische und vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft, Linguistics, Pragmatics, Grammar, Unhöflichkeit, verbale aggression, Impoliteness, Konventionalisierung, Conventionalization, Corpus/Experimental Pragmatics, Verbal Aggression