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Publication details [#51047]

Limberg, Holger. 2009. Impoliteness and threat responses. Journal of Pragmatics 41 (7) : 1376–1394.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
elicitation | face maintenance | politeness | response | threatening
Place, Publisher
Elsevier
Journal WWW
www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

This paper on impoliteness focuses on a specific sort of face-threatening strategy, namely verbal threats and immediate (elicited) threat responses.