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Publication details [#65701]

Garrido Ardila, J.A. 2019. Impoliteness as a rhetorical strategy in Spain's politics. Journal of Pragmatics 140 : 160–170.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Language as a subject
Place, Publisher
Elsevier

Annotation

This paper gives a terse resume of impoliteness in political discourse. It grasps media coverage of impoliteness in Spain's Parliament in 2016 and 2017; it probes impoliteness as a rhetorical strategy in a parliamentary investigative committee; and it supplies a list of impoliteness phenomena used strategically in political discourse.