Abstract The field of (im)politeness studies has been steadily growing and developing but the role conventionality type semiotic system (e.g., language vs. gesture) for impoliteness perception not sufficiently explored. We used a cognitive-semiotic framework combining reaction-time experiment in-depth interviews with sixty participants to explore how Russian Swedish native speakers evaluate des...

The attitudes of the speaker during a verbal interaction are affects linked to the speaker intentions, and are built by the language and the culture. They are a very large part of the affects expressed during an interaction, voluntary controlled, This paper describes several experiments which show that some attitudes own both to Japanese and French and are implemented in perceptively similar pr...

The same surface form used for a speech act meant to be interpreted literally may be used for a speech act that takes on additional indirect meaning. We investigated acoustic and prosodic differences between the realizations of such direct versus indirect speech acts. We conducted a production experiment with seven native General American English speakers, each engaging in fourteen pairs of dia...

This work proposes, first, an approach to the agonal character of electoral debates, and then analyses nature acts (im)politeness that appear in them. From there, it presents a triangular theoretical-methodological framework, based on analysis functional impoliteness strategies, linguistic-discursive mechanisms for their implementation social repercussions impolite acts. Within first these thre...