Impoliteness in Media Discourse

The book presents the issue of impoliteness in media discourse found in television debates, films and computer-mediated communication. The research perspectives adopted in the book include prosody studies, corpus linguistics, neo-Gricean pragmatics, media studies and audiovisual translation.

Autorentext

Anna B czkowska is associate professor of linguistics at Kazimierz Wielki University in Bydgoszcz (Poland). Her research interests include semantics, pragmatics, translation studies, psycholinguistics and applied linguistics. She is the editor of Linguistics Applied and two book series.

Inhalt

Impolite prosody in Swedish - Impoliteness in newspaper blog comments - Impolite language and identity - Impoliteness in apologies for a political event - Impoliteness in sports discourse - Reception of impolite political discourse - Face-attack in pre-election campaign - Translation of taboos in Arabic films