Publications
Publication details [#56284]
Haugh, Michael and Derek Bousfield. 2012. Mock impoliteness, jocular mockery and jocular abuse in Australian and British English. Journal of Pragmatics 44 (9) : 1099–1114.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
Language as a subject
Place, Publisher
Elsevier
Journal WWW
Annotation
This cross-cultural, intra-English language sociopragmatic study of jocular mockery and jocular abuse in male-only multi-party interactions in (North West) Britain and Australia, argues that the concerned mock impoliteness constitutes a social evaluation in its own right rather than a subsidiary form of either politeness or impoliteness.