Linguistic impoliteness - using English to cause offence
Medium
Periodical Article
Medium
- part of - (Periodical Copy) (Date) Feb2008 (Volume) 39
Classif
820 EMA
Subject
Linguistics
Page
20-22
Authors
Culpeper, Jonathan
Contents
Whilst sociologists can show the effects of impoliteness, linguists are able to investigate what it is and how it works. The author explains what such investigations reveal.
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