"It's rude to VP": The cultural semantics of rudeness

Journal of Pragmatics

Volumn 44, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 1051-1062

  Waters, Sophia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Impoliteness; Lexical semantics; Natural Semantic Metalanguage; Rudeness

Indexed keywords

EID: 84864081680     PISSN: 03782166     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2012.02.002     Document Type: Article

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