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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' and 'rudeness'? Grounded in naturally-occurring language data and drawing on findings from linguistic pragmatics and social psychology, Jonathan Culpeper provides a fascinating account of how impolite behaviour works. He examines not only its forms and functions but also people's understandings of it in both public and private contexts. He reveals, for example, the emotional consequences of impoliteness, how it shapes and is shaped by contexts, and how it is sometimes institutionalised. This book offers penetrating insights into a hitherto neglected and poorly understood phenomenon. It will be welcomed by students and researchers in linguistics and social psychology in particular.

Intro -- Contents -- List of Tables -- List of Figures -- Series Editors' Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Transcription Conventions -- 1 Introduction -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 Meanings in context -- 1.2.1 Beyond the linguistic code -- The assignment of sense -- The assignment of structural meaning -- The assignment of reference -- The assignment of utterance meaning -- 1.2.2 The scope of pragmatics -- The narrow view: syntax, semantics and pragmatics -- The broad view: pragmatic functions -- 1.3 The pragmatics of English -- 1.4 This book -- 2 Referential Pragmatics -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Definite expressions -- 2.3 Deixis -- 2.4 Anaphora -- 2.5 Using and understanding referring expressions in interaction -- 2.5.1 Referring expressions and context -- 2.5.2 Referring expressions and accessibility -- 2.5.3 Referring expressions and common ground -- 2.5.4 Referring expressions in interaction -- 2.6 Conclusion -- 3 Informational Pragmatics -- 3.1 Informational pragmatics -- 3.2 Informational ground: background and foreground -- 3.3 Informational background -- 3.3.1 Background assumptions -- 3.3.2 Presuppositions -- 3.4 Informational foreground -- 3.4.1 Foregrounding -- 3.4.2 Focus -- Focus and prosodic prominence -- Focus and syntactic structures -- Focus as contrastive or additive -- Focus formulae -- 3.5 Informational pragmatics: an interactional perspective -- 3.5.1 Presuppositions and backgrounding -- 3.5.2 Common grounding -- 3.6 Conclusion -- 4 Pragmatic Meaning I -- 4.1 Meaning beyond what is said -- 4.2 What is said versus what is implicated -- 4.2.1 Grice on speaker meaning -- 4.2.2 Implicated meaning -- Conventional implicatures -- Conversational implicatures -- Generalised versus particularised conversational implicatures -- Conversational implicatures as meant or communicated? -- 4.3 Between what is said and what is implicated.

This edited collection investigates historical linguistic politeness and impoliteness. Although some research has been undertaken uniting politeness and historical pragmatics, it has been sporadic at best, and often limited to traditional theoretical approaches. This is a strange state of affairs, because politeness plays a central role in the social dynamics of language. This collection, containing contributions from renowned experts, aims to fill this hiatus, bringing together cutting-edge research. Not only does it illuminate the language usage of earlier periods, but by examining the past

This handbook comprehensively examines social interaction by providing a critical overview of the field of linguistic politeness and impoliteness. Authored by over forty leading scholars, it offers a diverse and multidisciplinary approach to a vast array of themes that are vital to the study of interpersonal communication. The chapters explore the use of (im)politeness in specific contexts as well as wider developments, and variations across cultures and contexts in understandings of key concepts (such as power, emotion, identity and ideology). Within each chapter, the authors select a topic and offer a critical commentary on the key linguistic concepts associated with it, supporting their assertions with case studies that enable the reader to consider the practicalities of (im)politeness studies. 0This volume will be of interest to students and scholars of linguistics, particularly those concerned with pragmatics, sociolinguistics and interpersonal communication. Its multidisciplinary nature means that it is also relevant to researchers across the social sciences and humanities, particularly those working in sociology, psychology and history