Setting our house in order: The workings of impoliteness in multi-party film discourse

Journal of Politeness Research

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 161-194

  Dynel, Marta ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LODZ   (Poland)

Author keywords

"House"; Film discourse1; Hearer listener types; Impoliteness; Viewer

Indexed keywords

EID: 84871449040     PISSN: 16125681     EISSN: 16134877     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/pr-2012-0010     Document Type: Article

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