Chapter 2
Meanwhile in the world of (im)politeness
Article outline
- 2.1Traditional approaches to politeness and impoliteness
- 2.1.1Classic politeness theories and major critique of Brown and Levinson’s model
- 2.1.2A note on the onset of linguistic impoliteness research
- 2.2(Im)politeness in the era of discursive approaches
- 2.2.1In search of a definition of (im)politeness
- 2.2.2First-order and second-order concepts
- 2.2.3The metapragmatics of (im)politeness
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2.3The view of (im)politeness taken in this research
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