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The Grammar of Impoliteness
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Englisch
Veröffentlicht/Copyright:
2026
Über dieses Buch
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.
Information zu Autoren / Herausgebern
M. Andersson, Uppsala, Sweden; J. Culpeper, Lancaster, UK; R. Giomi, Amsterdam, Netherlands; D. Van Olmen, Lancaster, UK.
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Frontmatter
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Contents
V - Introduction
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1 The grammar of impoliteness
1 - From morphemes to periphrastic structures
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2 Impolite suffixoids in English slang
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3 A theoretical and experimental investigation of the morpho-syntax of an anti-honorific prefix in Korean
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4 Blessings and curses are structurally different: Data from Daghestan
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5 Che ti venga NP, a conventionalised impoliteness formula for Italian disease curses (14th–20th century)
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6 Wehe ‘woe’ + verb-second conditional clause in German: A conventionalized threat construction?
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7 ‘What the hell?!’ vs. ‘Wat de hel?!’: Contrasting the intensifying whx construction in English and Afrikaans
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8 Such an impoliteness: Evidence for the ‘evaluative such construction’
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9 Conventionalized impoliteness in English and Polish: The case of ‘you idiot!’
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10 A corpus-based exploration of British English impoliteness formulae
307 - Conclusion
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11 What’s in a word? Reflections about impoliteness and future directions
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Index
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eBook veröffentlicht am:
2. Dezember 2025
eBook ISBN:
9783111477084
Gebunden veröffentlicht am:
29. Dezember 2025
Gebunden ISBN:
9783111475271
Seiten und Bilder/Illustrationen im Buch
Frontmatter:
10
Inhalt:
280
Abbildungen:
15
Tabellen:
46
Schlagwörter für dieses Buch
Grammatik; Unhöflichkeit; Pragmatik; Verbale Aggression; Konventionalisierung
Zielgruppe(n) für dieses Buch
Researchers in and Students of (Im)politeness Studies, Pragmatics, Comparative/Contrastive Ling., Historical Linguistics
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