Mock impoliteness, jocular mockery and jocular abuse in Australian and British English

Journal of Pragmatics

Volumn 44, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 1099-1114

  Haugh, Michael ^a   Bousfield, Derek ^b  

^a GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL LANCASHIRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Banter; Jocular mockery; Mock impoliteness; Teasing Jocular abuse Insult; Variational pragmatics Conversation analysis Australian English British English

Indexed keywords

EID: 84864088862     PISSN: 03782166     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2012.02.003     Document Type: Article

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