Impoliteness

Using Language to Cause Offence

By: Jonathan Culpeper

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When is language considered `impolite'? is impolite language only used for anti-social purposes? Can impolite language be creative? What is the difference between `impoliteness' and `rudeness'? Grounded in naturally occurring language data and drawing on findings from linguistic pragmatics and social psychology, Jonathan Culpeper provides a fascinating account of how impolite behaviour works. He examines not only its forms and functions but also people's understandings of it in both public and private contexts. He reveals, for example, the emotional consequences of impoliteness, how it shapes and is shaped by contexts, and how it is sometimes institutionalised. This book offers penetrating insights into a hitherto neglected and poorly understood phenomenon. It will be welcomed by students and researchers in linguistics and social psychology in particular.

`Stimulating and scholarly ... a significant contribution to the growing research area of rudeness and impoliteness discourse.' Janet Holmes, Victoria University of Wellington

`Using diverse examples of rudeness, it will fascinate students of communication and linguistics as it addresses important controversies in the study of politeness.' Karen Tracy, Professor of Communication, University of Colorado at Boulder

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'Stimulating and scholarly ... a significant contribution to the growing research area of rudeness and impoliteness discourse.' Janet Holmes, Victoria University of Wellington
'Using diverse examples of rudeness, it will fascinate students of communication and linguistics as it addresses important controversies in the study of politeness.' Karen Tracy, University of Colorado, Boulder
'Culpeper's outstanding book documents that the time is ripe for us to address the urgent social problem of violence in language. In proposing an insightful theory of impoliteness, Culpeper accurately reads classic and contemporary linguistic theories and analyses a wide range of oral and written impoliteness events.' Daniel Silva, Journal of Language Aggression and Conflict

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Published: 6th January 2011

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List of figures and tables	p. ix
Preface	p. xii
Introducing impoliteness	p. 1
Understanding impoliteness I: Face and social norms	p. 19
Introduction: Impoliteness definitions	p. 19
The notion of impoliteness	p. 22
Face and offence	p. 24
Social norms and offence	p. 31
Cross-cultural variation and offence type	p. 43
Conclusion	p. 47
Understanding impoliteness II: Intentionality and emotions	p. 48
Introduction	p. 48
Intentionality and offence	p. 48
Emotion and offence	p. 56
Understanding impoliteness: An integrated socio-cognitive model	p. 65
Conclusion	p. 69
Impoliteness metadiscourse	p. 71
Introduction	p. 71
Metalanguage/metadiscourse and impoliteness	p. 73
The corpus-methodology and impoliteness metalanguage/metadiscourse	p. 75
The frequencies of impoliteness metalinguistic labels: Academia and general usage compared	p. 76
Impoliteness metalinguistic labels and their semantic domains	p. 80
Metalinguistic labels and their domains of usage: Corpus and report data findings	p. 82
Mapping impoliteness metalinguistic labels in conceptual space	p. 97
Impoliteness metapragmatic comments and the case of 'over-politeness'	p. 100
Impoliteness metapragmatic rules	p. 103
Conclusion	p. 111
Conventionalised formulaic impoliteness and its intensification	p. 113
Introduction	p. 113
Face-attack strategies and context	p. 114
Is (im)politeness inherent in language?	p. 117
From conventionalised politeness to conventionalised impoliteness	p. 126
Exacerbating the offensiveness of impoliteness formulae	p. 139
Conclusion	p. 152
Non-conventionalised impoliteness: Implicational impoliteness	p. 155
Introduction	p. 155
Implicational impoliteness: Form-driven	p. 156
Implicational impoliteness: Convention-driven	p. 165
Implicational impoliteness: Context-driven	p. 180
Directness, context and gravity of offence	p. 183
Conclusion	p. 193
Impoliteness events: Co-texts and contexts	p. 195
Introduction	p. 195
The backdrop for impoliteness	p. 197
Contextual priming: Face components, sensitivity and exposure	p. 201
Co-textual priming: (Im)politeness thresholds and reciprocity	p. 203
Recontextualising impoliteness: Genuine vs mock impoliteness	p. 207
Contextual neutralisation of impoliteness	p. 215
Conclusion	p. 218
Impoliteness events: Functions	p. 220
Introduction	p. 220
Affective impoliteness	p. 221
Coercive impoliteness	p. 225
Entertaining impoliteness	p. 233
Creativity and patterns of impoliteness	p. 239
Institutional impoliteness	p. 245
Conclusion	p. 252
Conclusions	p. 254
Notes	p. 259
References	p. 263
Index	p. 288
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