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Impoliteness: Using Language to Cause Offence

Impoliteness: Using Language to Cause Offence

Culpeper, Jonathan

Hardcover

Series: Studies in Interactional Sociolinguistics, Book 28

Linguistics

ISBN10: 0521869676
ISBN13: 9780521869676
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Jan 6 2011
Pages: 308
Weight: 1.32
Height: 0.80 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
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 linguistic pragmatics and social psychology, Jonathan Culpeper provides a fascinating account of how impolite behaviour works. He examines not only its forms and functions but also people's understandings of it in both public and private contexts. He reveals, for example, the emotional consequences of impoliteness, how it shapes and is shaped by contexts, and how it is sometimes institutionalised. This book offers penetrating insights into a hitherto neglected and poorly understood phenomenon. It will be welcomed by students and researchers in linguistics and social psychology in particular.

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