Machine generated contents note: Introducing impoliteness; 1. Understanding impoliteness I: face and social norms; 2. Understanding impoliteness II: intentionality and emotions; 3. Impoliteness metadiscourse; 4. Conventionalised formulaic impoliteness and its intensification; 5. Non-conventionalised impoliteness: implicational impoliteness; 6. Impoliteness events: co-texts and contexts; 7. Impoliteness events: functions; 8. Conclusions.
Impoliteness : using language to cause offence by Jonathan Culpeper. ISBN 9780521689779. Published by Cambridge University Press in 2011. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.