Impoliteness in language studies on its interplay with power in theory and practice

The volume addresses the enormous imbalance that exists between academic interest in politeness phenomena when compared to impoliteness phenomena. Researchers working with Brown and Levinson's ([1978] 1987) seminal work on politeness rarely focused explicitly on impoliteness. As a result, only...

Full description

Bibliographic Details

Other Authors:	Bousfield, Derek, Locher, Miriam A.
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Berlin, Germany Mouton de Gruyter 2008
Series:	Language, power and social process 21
Subjects:	Politeness (Linguistics) Power (social sciences) Interpersonal relations
Tags:	Add Tag No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!