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Impoliteness in interaction

This study concerns the nature of impoliteness in face-to-face spoken interaction. For more than three decades many pragmatic and sociolinguistic studies of interaction have considered politeness to be one central explanatory concept governing and underpinning face-to-face interaction. Politeness�...

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Main Author: Bousfield, Derek
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam, Netherland Philadelphia, PA John Benjamins 2008
Series:Pragmatics & beyond new ser., 167
Subjects:
Interpersonal communication
Politeness (Linguistics)
Discourse analysis
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Table of Contents:
  • Chapter 1. Impoliteness in interaction
  • Chapter 2. Implicature: (Mis)understanding grice
  • Chapter 3. Face within a model of im/politeness
  • Chapter 4. Perspectives on politeness and impoliteness
  • Chapter 5. The realisation of impoliteness
  • Chapter 6. The dynamics of impoliteness I: Dynamics at the utterance level
  • Chapter 7. The dynamics of impoliteness II: Dynamics at the discoursal level
  • Chapter 8. The dynamics of impoliteness III: Exploiting the rules of the turn taking system
  • Chapter 9

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