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Publication details [#53166]
Culpeper, Jonathan. 2010. Conventionalised impoliteness formulae. Journal of Pragmatics 42 (12) : 3232–3245.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
Language as a subject
Place, Publisher
Elsevier
Journal WWW
Annotation
This paper examines conventionalised impoliteness formulae and their basis, focusing on indirect experience of impoliteness via impoliteness metadiscourse. It presents two methods for distinguishing conventionalised impoliteness formulae and provides a preliminary list of such formulae in English.