Impolite prosody in Swedish and the importance of context / {u008F}Asa Abelin -- 'If you can't share the road, then find yourself some other planet': Impoliteness in a corpus of newspaper blog comments / Daniel Ginsberg -- Realizations and functions of impoliteness in discourse about language and identity in Croatian and Montenegrin media / Ljiljana Saric and Tatjana Radanovic Felberg -- Rude language in personal apologies for a political event / Elizabeth Riddle and Mai Kuha -- 'That was a bit daft though, wasn't it?' Strategic use of impolitness in a post-match media interview / Kieran A. File -- Face attacks, offence and plasic Brits: intentional British media impoliteness / Gerrard Mugford -- Face-attach in Georgian political discourse. Using examples from TV debates between female politicians during the pre-election campaign for the parliamentary elections of 2012 / Manana Rusieshvili-Cartledge -- Impoliteness in the 'casse-toi pauv' con' incident: a discourse case-study / Celia Schneebeli -- Impoliteness in the media and its reception / Iwona Benenowska -- Spread of impoliteness through media in the societyCase in Iranian serial Qahveye Talkh (Bitter Coffee) / Marzieh Bashirpour and S. Imtiaz Hasnain -- Translation of taboo expressions in Arabic subtitling / Sattar Izwaini.
Summary:
The book presents the issue of impoliteness in media discourse found in television debates, films and computer-mediated communication. The phenomenon is viewed from different theoretical perspectives, namely prosody studies, corpus linguistics, media studies and audiovisual translation, neo-Gricean approaches, reception-oriented investigations and context-bound interpretations. Authors from ten different countries - Sweden, USA, Norway, New Zealand, Mexico, Georgia, France, Poland, India, and UAE - analyse data from nine languages - English, Swedish, Georgian, Polish, Arabic, Persian, French, Croatian and Montenegrin.
Series:
Interfaces : studies in languge, mind, and translation ; Vol. 5
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.