The Grammar of Impoliteness

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Editors
  • D. Van Olmen
  • M. Andersson
  • J. Culpeper
  • R. Giomi ORCID logo
Publication date 2025
ISBN
  • 9783111475271
ISBN (electronic)
  • 9783111477084
Series Trends in Linguistics: Studies and Monographs
Number of pages 358
Publisher Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton
Organisations
  • Faculty of Humanities (FGw) - Amsterdam Institute for Humanities Research (AIHR) - Amsterdam Center for Language and Communication (ACLC)
Abstract The dominant view in linguistics nowadays is that impoliteness is purely a matter of situational assessments by speech participants. This volume challenges that orthodoxy. Bringing together studies on structures that convey insults, threats and more in a wide range of languages, it shows that there is, in fact, a formal side to impoliteness. The volume reveals shared features of and sources for grammatical expressions of impoliteness, explores ways in which their impolite character can be established and offers new insights into their diachrony.
Document type Book (Editorship)
Language English
Published at https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111477084
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