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...

This study investigates impoliteness on Twitter in the context of Malaysian users. The objectives are to examine strategies and triggers found tweet replies tweets issues related COVID-19. data consist 440 COVID-19, posted from May 2020 2021 which contain elements impoliteness. uses Culpeper’s (2005) model (2011) framework for examining triggers. is motivated by dearth studies focusing findings...

This study aimed to analyze the impoliteness utterance that reflected in literary work, especially a movie. The data source used this article is Wrong Stepmother Movie. research theory of Pragmatic related with and Culpeper (2011). method Qualitative method. From analysis finding it can be concluded. All strategies types are found “The Stepmother” These bald on record impoliteness, positive neg...

Impoliteness has recently been of interest to scholars as a linguistic study in the field pragmatics. It emerged opposite orientation politeness strategy, theory and studies. This paper explores how impoliteness strategies mapped out by Jonathan Culpeper (1996) are employed dramatic texts. examines Culpeper’s designed investigate face text. tests through Neil Simon’s Biloxi Blues (1985). comedy...

This study investigates impolite natural Ghanaian conversations using a pragmatic approach. It is aimed at describing the types of impoliteness strategies, how they are linguistically represented and identifying responses toward strategies. research employed qualitative collection. The data were ten which portray distinct society in terms norms, relationship, status power. sources documented tr...

• Mobilizing the impoliteness theory in a marketing context. Unveiling concept of Consumer-to-Brand Impoliteness. Deepening underlying meanings luxury stores. Defining four profiles impolite consumers’ practices: “Being Crude“, “Interferring “, “Mastering“ and “Blaspheming“. Shaping manager’s responses according to perceived level practices. In this article, we use Impoliteness Theory, defined ...

Prior approaches to politeness modulation in natural language generation (NLG) often focus on manipulating factors such as the directness of requests that pertain to preserving the autonomy of the addressee (negative face threats), but do not have a systematic way of understanding potential impoliteness from inadvertently critical or blame-oriented communications (positive face threats). In thi...