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Culpeper, Jonathan. 1996. Towards an anatomy of impoliteness. Journal of Pragmatics 25 (3) : 349–367.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
Place, Publisher
Elsevier
ISBN
0378-2166

Annotation

As impoliteness plays a key role in some contexts -such as army training and literary drama-, this paper attempts to provide a descriptive impoliteness framework, parallel but opposite to Brown and Levinson's theory. It focuses on inherent and mock impoliteness, and discusses associated contextual factors.