The “impoliteness strategy”, a kind of parallel to the “politeness strategy”, has dominated
research for decades and is still current. However, the notion of a “strategy” is poorly …

How do we interpret language and expose its meanings? How does pragmatics describe
the English language? Where can we go to acquire a deeper understanding of pragmatics …

When is language considered'impolite'? Is impolite language only used for anti-social
purposes? Can impolite language be creative? What is the difference between'impoliteness' …

This volume brings together two highly researched but also highly controversial concepts,
those of politeness and implicature. A theory of implicature as social action and …

This chapter focuses on genuine linguistic impoliteness, that is to say, linguistic material that
is associated with offensive effects. It discusses some of the most central concepts and …

Second Language Pragmatics: From Theory to Research aims to reinvigorate this field,
pointing the way forward to new methodologies that can drive, or be driven by, new …

Although there is no shortage of definitions for pragmatics the received wisdom is
that'pragmatics' simply cannot be coherently defined. In this groundbreaking book Mira Ariel …

Im/politeness is often conceptualised as the hearer's evaluation of a speaker's behaviour in
discursive politeness research, representing the broader concern with the participant's …

The discursive approach to politeness represents one of the most coherent challenges to the
dominance of Brown and Levinson's politeness theory to date, and indeed to the continuing …

Routledge English Language Introductions cover core areas of language study and are one-
stop resources for students. Assuming no prior knowledge, books in the series offer an …