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    <p>If you need some type of theoretical framework for this study,
      you could use Jonathan Culpeper's work on impoliteness, see for
      instance this paper on 'impoliteness strategies':</p>
    <p><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.researchgate.net/publication/300633947_Impoliteness_Strategies">https://www.researchgate.net/publication/300633947_Impoliteness_Strategies</a></p>
    <p>Culpeper distinguishes eleven types of insults in Section 8 on
      'impoliteness triggers' (referring to his own earlier work from
      2011). He extended Brown/Levinston-style politeness theory to
      impoliteness -- communicative actions intended to damage someone's
      (positive) face.</p>
    <p>I doubt that languages have grammaticalized ways of expressing,
      for instance, positive impoliteness, in the same way as they
      encode positive politeness (e.g. in the V/T-forms of European
      languages). Perhaps you could consider the use of T-forms in a
      V-context as impolite (and potentially offensive). I wouldn't
      regard the types of structures found in 'personalized negative
      vocatives' (Culpeper's term) "grammaticalized". I think they
      rather belong in the lexicon, but that's obviously a matter of
      definition.</p>
    <p>Volker<br>
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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 15.12.21 11:39, Riccardo Giomi
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        <div>Dear all,</div>
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        <div>Thank you very much for a nice set of data and references.
          This will be extremely useful. <br>
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        <div>I will reply to some of you privately, asking for further
          comments/data/references. In the mean time, any further
          feedback is of course more than welcome!</div>
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        <div>@Maia & Paolo: I agree with Paolo that <i>pezzo di /
            espèce de</i> are not grammaticalized, although not for the
          reason he mentions. After all the working hypothesis is
          precisely that languages can have grammaticalized means of
          marking a speech act as an insult, so, according to this
          hypothesis, the fact that <i>pezzo di X</i> never occurs with
          positively connotated epithets does not entail that the
          construction is not grammaticalized.</div>
        <div>A different type of argument for regarding these as lexical
          constructions is the fact that premodifying adjectives must
          agree with <i>pezzo </i>and not with the epithet (and I
          guess the same goes for French <i>espèce</i>), cf. <i>brutt<u>o</u>
            pezzo di cretina</i>, as opposed to *<i>brutt<u>a</u> pezzo
            di cretina</i>. This suggests that <i>pezzo </i>is the
          head of the construction; if it had been a grammaticalized
          element, I suppose agreement would have been with the epithet.
          At any rate, these nouns are not really reserved for marking a
          speech act as an insult -- they can also occur in other types
          of speech act, e.g. declarative <i>Quel pezzo di X mi ha
            rubato la bici </i>(roughly, 'That dirty X stole my bike').</div>
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        <div>Best wishes to all,</div>
        <div>Riccardo<br>
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        <div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">Paolo Ramat <<a
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          escreveu no dia quarta, 15/12/2021 à(s) 11:03:<br>
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          <div dir="ltr">In Italian too <i>pezzo di X  </i>'espèce de
            X' , as in <i>pezzo di idiota </i>and the very insulting,
            derogating<i> (</i>but very much used)<i> pezzo di merda, </i>appears 
            just in derogating expressions: you will never hear <i>
              *pezzo di  genio, </i>nor<i> *pezzo di benefattore !  </i>This
            is, I think, an argument for not considering  the construct
            <i>'pezzo di X ' </i>as belonging to the grammar (Maia).
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            <div>Paolo</div>
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            <div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">Il giorno mer 15 dic 2021
              alle ore 07:48 Nigel Vincent <<a
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                  is of course right that the English 'you X' is a way
                  of insulting people but that depends on X being an
                  insult. The same construction can be used to praise:
                  'you genius', 'you darling', etc.</div>
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                    <b>Sent:</b> 15 December 2021 1:54 AM<br>
                    <b>To:</b> Jussi Ylikoski <<a
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                    <b>Subject:</b> Re: [Lingtyp] Grammatical marking of
                    insults (?)</font>
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style="font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Doesn't
                    the English "you idiot" (you [insult]) qualify as an
                    example? </div>
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style="font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Copula-free
                    adposition is not standard in English predication,
                    and it seems largely limited to second person sing
                    and derogatory adjectives? </div>
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                    has "espèce d'idiot" - not sure whether it qualifies
                    as grammatical or lexical. </div>
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                      Maïa</div>
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                        <b>Subject:</b> Re: [Lingtyp] Grammatical
                        marking of insults (?)</font>
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                        Riccardo and all,</div>
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                      <div
style="font-family:Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;font-size:10pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)">D’Avis
                        and Meibauer's paper "Du Idiot! Din idiot!
                        Pseudo-vocative constructions and insults in
                        German (and Swedish)" (<a
href="https://aus01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.degruyter.com%2Fdocument%2Fdoi%2F10.1515%2F9783110304176.189%2Fhtml&data=04%7C01%7Cmaia.ponsonnet%40uwa.edu.au%7Ccc94c4625b3c491e5c2808d9bf4e9dc5%7C05894af0cb2846d8871674cdb46e2226%7C0%7C0%7C637751168309659999%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000&sdata=Qm0dhs6L0wUoC0ozwJeshZnGlztNFYs2tB0%2FwjH91yo%3D&reserved=0"
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                        might be of interest; see also the thirty
                        studies referring to this paper according to
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                            <b>Sent:</b> þriðjudagur, 14. desember 2021
                            22:50<br>
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                            <b>Efni:</b> Re: [Lingtyp] Grammatical
                            marking of insults (?)</font>
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                              <div>Dear Riccardo,<br>
                                Sinhala has several levels of politeness
                                in imperatives (marked by <br>
                                affixes), one of which would be rendered
                                as "Do X, you $#!% !!!". I once <br>
                                nearly got beaten up when
                                underestimating the impact that the use
                                of <br>
                                this form can have. I can look up the
                                reference if you want to.<br>
                                Best wishes<br>
                                Sebastian<br>
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                                On 12/14/21 19:49, Riccardo Giomi wrote:<br>
                                > Dear all,<br>
                                > <br>
                                > A student of mine would like to
                                investigate the linguistic coding of <br>
                                > insults across languages. She is
                                particularly interested in finding out <br>
                                > whether languages can have
                                dedicated (uses of) grammatical <br>
                                > forms/constructions for this
                                specific purpose. The best example I
                                could <br>
                                > come up with so far is the use of
                                the Portuguese third person reflexive <br>
                                > possessive adjective (determiner in
                                Brazilian Portuguese) /seu/sua/ with <br>
                                > epithets which are meant as
                                insults. An example would be<br>
                                > <br>
                                > /Cala=te, seu burro!/<br>
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                                > 'Shut up, you idiot!'<br>
                                > <br>
                                > (Where, funnily enough, the third
                                person of the adjective/determiner is <br>
                                > presumably the polite form!) This
                                is an interesting case, I think, <br>
                                > because as far as I can see you
                                never use /seu/sua /in 'plain' <br>
                                > vocatives, nor with terms of
                                endearment, nor, for that matter, with
                                NPs <br>
                                > which are not used as invocations.<br>
                                > <br>
                                > I am wondering whether anyone is
                                aware of a language which has some <br>
                                > grammaticalized form or
                                construction that can be used in this
                                specific <br>
                                > way. Note that I am not interested
                                in, say, abusive pronouns or <br>
                                > honorifics or general expressions
                                of the speaker's disappointment <br>
                                > ('frustrative' markers) but only in
                                grammaticalized means of marking the <br>
                                > speech act as an insult.<br>
                                > <br>
                                > Many thanks in advance and best
                                wishes to all,<br>
                                > Riccardo<br>
                                > <br>
                                > -- <br>
                                > Riccardo Giomi, Ph.D.<br>
                                > University of Liège<br>
                                > Département de langues modernes :
                                linguistique, littérature et traduction<br>
                                > Research group /Linguistique
                                contrastive et typologie des langues/<br>
                                > F.R.S.-FNRS Postdoctoral fellow (CR
                                - FC 43095)<br>
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