Browsing by Subject "impoliteness"
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Denoting Offence
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Formulaic Thought and Expression in Linguistic Politeness
(Peter Lang, 2019)Formulaic expressions constitute a heterogeneous category, in that some exhibit robust re-combinatory potential through modifiable and re-useable internal compositionality. Subcategories of linguistic politeness ... -
Multimodal Conformity of Expression between Blog Names and Content
(IEEE, 2013)Using a sentiment lexicon for German translated into English, Italian, Spanish and Swedish, Tumblr URL names for blog archives are inspected with regard to the category of the content. Across the five languages, where the ... -
Some Puzzles of Politeness and Impoliteness within a Formal Semantics of Offensive Language
(Springer, 2015)Puzzles of linguistic politeness and impoliteness are outlined. A framework for articulating formal semantic theories of linguistic politeness and impoliteness is adopted. The framework provides a foundation for a ... -
Taboo Semantics
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Taking Offence
(2020)Between speakers and addressees, the perception of offensiveness in natural language may diverge distinctly to the potential for divergence of understanding of lexical content. Historically, the perception of offensiveness ...