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The Grammar of Impoliteness
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Edited by:
Daniel Van Olmen
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Funded by:
Lancaster University
Language:
English
Published/Copyright:
2026
About this book
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.
Author / Editor information
M. Andersson, Uppsala, Sweden; J. Culpeper, Lancaster, UK; R. Giomi, Amsterdam, Netherlands; D. Van Olmen, Lancaster, UK.
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Introduction
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Daniel Van Olmen, Jonathan Culpeper, Riccardo Giomi and Marta Andersson Open Access Download PDF |
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From morphemes to periphrastic structures
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Elisa Mattiello Open Access Download PDF |
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Colin Davis and Hyewon Jang Open Access Download PDF |
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Nina Dobrushina Open Access Download PDF |
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Annick Paternoster Open Access Download PDF |
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Rita Finkbeiner Open Access Download PDF |
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Gerhard B. van Huyssteen, Adri Breed and Suléne Pilon Open Access Download PDF |
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Angela Queisser and Monika Pleyer Open Access Download PDF |
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Daniel Van Olmen and Marta Andersson Open Access Download PDF |
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Jonathan Culpeper, Isolde van Dorst and Mathew Gillings Open Access Download PDF |
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Conclusion
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Marina Terkourafi Open Access Download PDF |
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Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
eBook published on:
December 2, 2025
eBook ISBN:
9783111477084
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Hardcover ISBN:
9783111475271
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
Front matter:
10
Main content:
280
Illustrations:
15
Tables:
46
Keywords for this book
Grammar; Impoliteness; Conventionalization; Pragmatics; Verbal Aggression; Corpus/Experimental Pragmatics
Audience(s) for this book
Researchers in and Students of (Im)politeness Studies, Pragmatics, Comparative/Contrastive Ling., Historical Linguistics
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BY-NC-ND 4.0
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