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Record Nr.

UNISA996691899103316

Titolo

The Grammar of Impoliteness / / edited by Daniel Van Olmen, Marta Andersson, Jonathan Culpeper and Riccardo Giomi

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin : , : De Gruyter, , 2025

©2026

ISBN

3-11-147708-8

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource

Collana

Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs ; ; 392

Disciplina

306.44

Soggetti

Politeness (Linguistics)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Sommario/riassunto

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.