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 …

This book aims to cast light on the somewhat neglected area of mock politeness. The
principle objectives are to bring together research into mock politeness which has been …

Despite its centrality to religiously aggravated hate crime recorded in England and Wales,
the nature of the language used has been neglected in research. This paper, based on a …

This chapter argues that face and identity are difficult to tease apart theoretically and even
more so empirically, because they co-constitute each other and are intrinsically related. Its …

This study uses a Corpus Assisted Discourse Studies methodology to provide the first
systematic analysis of how trust is discursively constructed in crypto-drug markets. The data …

This paper sets out a new, multimodal account (both visual and verbal analysis) of how self-
denigration is conveyed through 'ugly selfies' as posted to the photo-sharing site Instagram …

In order to give the reader an idea of what this book is about, I would like to start the first
chapter with the following example that perfectly illustrates the (meta-) pragmatic …

This article responds to the call for more empirical research to further our understanding of
how identities are produced and performed in discourse. Data extracts from dyadic post …

Recent research suggests that as a social public problem, domestic violence is sustained in
a number of social contexts that naturalize violence against women through gendered …

The debate about whether the sexes communicate and behave differently continues. The
stereotype that women are not funny or that their language or behavior is more “ladylike” is …