Impoliteness using language to cause offence
When is language considered 'impolite'? Is impolite language only used for anti-social purposes? Can impolite language be creative? What is the difference between 'impoliteness' and 'rudeness'? Grounded in naturally-occurring language data and drawing on findings from l...
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| Language: | English |
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Cambridge
Cambridge University Press
2011
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| Series: | Studies in interactional sociolinguistics
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| Collection: | Cambridge Books Online - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- Introducing impoliteness
- 1. Understanding impoliteness I: face and social norms
- Introduction: impoliteness definitions
- The notion of impoliteness
- Face and offence
- Social norms and offence
- Cross-cultural variation and offence type
- 2. Understanding impoliteness II: intentionality and emotions
- Intentionality and offence
- Emotion and offence
- Understanding impoliteness: an integrated socio-cognitive model
- 3. Impoliteness metadiscourse
- Metalanguage / metadiscourse and impoliteness
- The corpus-methodology and impoliteness metalanguage / metadiscourse
- The frequencies of impoliteness metalinguistic labels: academia and general usage compared
- Impoliteness metalinguistic labels and their semantic domains
- Metalinguistic labels and their domain of usage: corpus and report data findings
- Mapping impoliteness metapragmatic comments and the case of 'over-politeness'
- Impoliteness metapragmatic rules
- 4. Conventionalised formulaic impoliteness and its intensification
- Face-attack strategies and context
- Is (im)politeness inherent in language?
- From conventionalised politeness to conventionalised impoliteness
- Exacerbating the offensiveness of impoliteness formulae
- 5. Non-conventionalised impoliteness: implicational impoliteness
- Implicational impoliteness: form-driven
- Implicational impoliteness: convention-driven
- Implicational impoliteness: context-driven
- Directness, context and gravity of offence
- 6. Impoliteness events: co-texts and contexts
- The backdrop for impoliteness
- Contextual priming: face components, sensitivity and exposure
- Co-textual priming: (im)politeness thresholds and reciprocity
- Recontextualising impoliteness: genuine vs mock impoliteness
- Contextual neutralisation of impoliteness
- 7. Impoliteness events: functions
- Affective impoliteness
- Coercive impoliteness
- Entertaining impoliteness
- Creativity and patterns of impoliteness
- Institutional impoliteness
- 8. Conclusions