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 …

Intercultural PragmatIcs Page 1 2024 · Volume 21 · Issue 1 Intercultural PragmatIcs edItor-In-chIef
Professor Dr. Istvan Kecskes State University of New York at Albany reVIew edItor Dr. Jesus …

Yan Huang's highly successful textbook on pragmatics-the study of language in use-has
been fully revised and updated in this second edition. It includes a brand new chapter on …

El propósito de este trabajo es profundizar en el concepto de actividad de imagen y
defender su utilidad como categoría de estudio para comprender diferentes tipos de …

The overall aim of this paper is to investigate impoliteness in a particular on-line polylogal
setting–YouTube postings (c. 13,000 words) triggered by the 'Obama Reggaeton'video …

This paper analyses the linguistic construction of the televisual character Sheldon the 'main
nerd'in the sitcom The Big Bang Theory (CBS, 2007), approaching this construction of …

This article attempts to give a state-of-the-art picture of impoliteness studies and to indicate a
few prospective research directions to enrich them. It critically surveys a number of …

The field of linguistic politeness has of late experienced a renewed interest in
conceptualizations of one of its core concepts, face. Since the publication of Brown and …

This paper analyzes impoliteness-related language in response to a season's greeting
posted by the Prime Ministers of Spain and the UK on December 2022 to wish Twitter users …

Though, in recent years, impoliteness research has embraced a view of impoliteness as
dynamically co-constructed in interaction, the role of impoliteness in polylogal discourse is …