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Impoliteness and Power: An Interlanguage Pragmatic Approach to the Use of Impolite Patterns in Terms of Power

Mohammad Khatib; Khadijeh Lotfi

Volume 7, Issue 15 , May 2015, , Pages 43-67

Abstract
  Although studies on pragmatics in general and politeness in particular abound in the literature, impoliteness has been largely ignored. In the present study, participants filled out either the Persian or English version of a discourse completion test (DCT). The researchers analyzed collected answers ...  Read More