36.3634, Books: The Grammar of Impoliteness: Van Olmen, Andersson, Culpeper, and Giomi (eds.) (2025)

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Date: 24-Nov-2025
From: Editorial Office De Gruyter Brill [birgit.sievert at degruyterbrill.com]
Subject: The Grammar of Impoliteness: Van Olmen, Andersson, Culpeper, and Giomi (eds.) (2025)


Title: The Grammar of Impoliteness
Series Title: Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM]
volume # 392
Publication Year: 2025

Publisher: De Gruyter Brill
           https://www.degruyterbrill.com/?changeLang=en
Book URL:
https://www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783111477084/html

Editor(s): Daniel Van Olmen, Marta Andersson, Jonathan Culpeper, and
Riccardo Giomi

print & ebook edition available; ebook edition available in Open
Access

Abstract:

The dominant view in linguistics nowadays is that impoliteness is
purely a matter of situational assessments by speech participants.
This volume challenges that orthodoxy. Bringing together studies on
structures that convey insults, threats and more in a wide range of
languages, it shows that there is, in fact, a formal side to
impoliteness. The volume reveals shared features of and sources for
grammatical expressions of impoliteness, explores ways in which their
impolite character can be established and offers new insights into
their diachrony.

Linguistic Field(s): Morphology
                     Pragmatics
                     Syntax

Written In: English (eng)



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