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impoliteness: a standalone construct

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Pragmatics

communicative strategies designed to attack face and cause social conflict, the mirror image of politeness strategies.

In pragmatics, impoliteness refers to communicative strategies designed to attack face and cause social conflict, the mirror image of politeness strategies. This meaning comes from Culpeper (1996) in Journal of Pragmatics.[1]

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References

Culpeper, J. (1996). Towards an anatomy of impoliteness. Journal of Pragmatics, 25(3), 349-367. https://doi.org/10.1016/0378-2166(95)00014-3

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