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Politeness and impoliteness

J. Culpeper

2011 · DOI: 10.1163/2589-6229_eslo_com_032339
157 Citations

Abstract

about the speaker's intention, the addressee draws on that previous experience (represented holistically as a frame) to derive the proposition that "in offering expression x the speaker is being polite" as a generalised implicature of the speaker's utterance. On the basis of this generalised implicature, the addressee may then come to hold the further belief that the speaker is polite.