Impoliteness in Interaction

by Derek Bousfield

This study concerns the nature of impoliteness in face-to-face spoken interaction. For more than three decades many pragmatic and sociolinguistic studies of interaction have considered politeness to be one central explanatory concept governing and underpinning face-to-face interaction. Politeness' "evil twin" impoliteness has been largely neglected until only very recently. This book, the first of its kind on the subject, considers the role that impoliteness...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9027254397
• ISBN13: 9789027254399
• Release Date: January 2008
• Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
• Length: 281 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 9.4"