Publications

Publication details [#51032]

Mills, Sara. 2009. Impoliteness in a cultural context. Journal of Pragmatics 41 (5) : 1047–1060.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

ideology | language and culture | politeness | social context | stereotype

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

As generalisations regarding impoliteness at a cultural level are often based on stereotypical and ideological knowledge, this paper proposes to develop social models of politeness, to register cultural level changes more efficiently.