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Publication details [#52758]

Bousfield, Derek and Miriam A. Locher, eds. 2008. Impoliteness in Language. Studies on its Interplay with Power in Theory and Practice. (Language, Power and Social Process 21). De Gruyter. viii+346 pp.
Publication type
Book – edited volume
Publication language
English

Annotation

This volume focuses on the concept of linguistic impoliteness, on the fundamental differences and interrelations between lay and academic impoliteness comprehension within a theory of face- and relational work, and on the exercise of power involved in impoliteness practice.