Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of figures and tables
- Preface
- Introducing impoliteness
- 1 Understanding impoliteness I: Face and social norms
- 2 Understanding impoliteness II: Intentionality and emotions
- 3 Impoliteness metadiscourse
- 4 Conventionalised formulaic impoliteness and its intensification
- 5 Non-conventionalised impoliteness: Implicational impoliteness
- 6 Impoliteness events: Co-texts and contexts
- 7 Impoliteness events: Functions
- 8 Conclusions
- Notes
- References
- Index
List of figures and tables
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 16 May 2011
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of figures and tables
- Preface
- Introducing impoliteness
- 1 Understanding impoliteness I: Face and social norms
- 2 Understanding impoliteness II: Intentionality and emotions
- 3 Impoliteness metadiscourse
- 4 Conventionalised formulaic impoliteness and its intensification
- 5 Non-conventionalised impoliteness: Implicational impoliteness
- 6 Impoliteness events: Co-texts and contexts
- 7 Impoliteness events: Functions
- 8 Conclusions
- Notes
- References
- Index
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- ImpolitenessUsing Language to Cause Offence, pp. ix - xiPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2011