Impoliteness on Twitter by Malaysians

Impoliteness and mock-impoliteness A descriptive analysis

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Intercultural impoliteness

The paper argues that impoliteness may work differently in intercultural interactions than in L1 communication. Most researchers (cf. Bousfield, 2008; Culpeper, 2009, 2010; Haugh, 2011) analyzing impoliteness within one language seem to agree that no act is inherently impolite, and that such a condition depends on the context or speech situation that affects interpretation. This may not be quit...

1 Impoliteness and Mock - Impoliteness in Dom 2

Impoliteness: The Ghanaian Standpoint

This paper highlights the folk perception of impoliteness among Ghanaians in view of Watts’ (2003) notion of first order impoliteness. The study showed that impoliteness is not just an opposite of politeness, but the manifestation of non-cooperation, disapproval, and mutual antipathy through certain communicative behaviours that signal disrespect. These communicative behaviours include ‘interru...

Sick sinus syndrome in Malaysians.