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...

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...

The primary goal of this descriptive qualitative study was to investigate the strategies impoliteness used by speakers in Keeping Up With Kardashians series on YouTube. utterances which contain uttered within were taken as data. Furthermore, data analyzed identifying strategy according Culpeper (2005)’s theory. Descriptive Creswell & (2018) performed research. observational method collect a...

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...

Recently, research in pragmatics has turned to the analysis of online impoliteness in light of the growing importance of computer-mediated communication and the prevalence of online aggression in such contexts. However, although name-calling and other impoliteness strategies have been examined in various languages, similar research in Greek is still scarce. Therefore, this paper focuses on the ...

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...

This descriptive-quantitative study is aimed at finding out the types of impoliteness super-strategies used by Sylvie toward her employee, Emily, in Emily Paris season one, as well most and least frequently types. The main theory Culpeper's (1996, 2005) strategy. findings reveal that has implemented all five super-strategies. common negative which likely occurs because always opposes on purpose...

This research focuses on identifying the impoliteness strategies and explaining purposes of most frequently used strategy in Afraid Dark stand-up comedy show performed by Trevor Noah. The data this are Noah’s utterances which contains strategies. analysis was based theory proposed Jonathan Culpeper (1996). result shows that Noah uses 105 instances cover all five types Culpeper; bald record impo...

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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...