Publications

Publication details [#65366]

Kamalu, Ikenna and Khabyr Fasasi. 2018. Impoliteness and Face-Threatening Acts as Conversational Strategies among Undergraduates of State Universities in Southwest Nigeria. Language Matters: Studies in the Languages of Africa 49 (2) : 23–38.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

discourse strategy | face maintenance | politeness | student | university

Place, Publisher

Routledge

Annotation

This inquiy explores the particular models and functions of impolite and face-threatening acts (imp/FTAs) amid state university undergraduates in the southwestern part of Nigeria to learn whether imp/FTAs unavoidably entail conversational disruption and failure. It is found they do not so.