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Journal of Language Aggression and ConflictVol. 1:2 (2013) ► pp.257–266
Book review
. Impoliteness: Using language to cause offence [Studies in Interactional Sociolinguistics, 28]. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011. xiv, 292 pp. $33.99
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