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Impoliteness in children's interactions in a Spanish/English bilingual community of practice

This article examines how participants do impoliteness in children's peer interaction in a second grade, Spanish/English bilingual community of practice in an elementary school in the Southwestern United States...

Keywords: Impoliteness, conversation, Mexican-American, bilingual, Spanish, politeness, rapport-management

07/2006 | Journal of Politeness Research. Language, Behaviour, Culture, Walter de Gruyter

Politeness Theory and Relational Work

In this paper we briefly revisit politeness research influenced by Brown and Levinson's (1987) politeness theory...

Keywords: politeness, Impoliteness, face, relational work, Facework

01/2005 | Journal of Politeness Research. Language, Behaviour, Culture, Walter de Gruyter

Impoliteness and Entertainment in the Television Quiz Show: The Weakest Link

Building on Culpeper (1996) and Culpeper et al. (2003), I first propose a new definition of impoliteness and general revisions to my model of impoliteness, both derived from data analyses...

Keywords: Impoliteness, mimicry, politeness, prosody, quiz shows, sarcasm

01/2005 | Journal of Politeness Research. Language, Behaviour, Culture, Walter de Gruyter

Managing adversarial questioning in broadcast interviews

This paper considers the notion of impoliteness through a detailed analysis of questioning and answering in confrontational television interviews...

Keywords: broadcast interaction, adversarial questioning, Impoliteness

07/2005 | Journal of Politeness Research. Language, Behaviour, Culture, Walter de Gruyter

Gender and impoliteness

This article analyzes the complex relationship between gender and impoliteness. Rather than assuming that gender and impoliteness are concrete entities which can be traced in conversation, I argue that gender and impoliteness are elements which are worked out within the course of interaction...

Keywords: gender, Impoliteness, politeness, assertiveness, co-operativeness, nice