Inappropriate inspectors: Impoliteness and overpoliteness in Ian Rankin's and Andrea Camilleri's crime series

Language and Literature

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 311-324

  Paternoster, Annick ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LUGANO   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Appropriateness; dialogue; impoliteness; inappropriateness; insincerity; metapragmatic comment; over politeness; politeness; rudeness

Indexed keywords

EID: 84864463370     PISSN: 09639470     EISSN: 14617293     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0963947012444221     Document Type: Article

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