Researching impoliteness and rudeness: Issues and definitions

Interpersonal Pragmatics

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 101-134

  Bousfield, Derek ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL LANCASHIRE   (United Kingdom)

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DOI: 10.1515/9783110214338.1.101     Document Type: Chapter

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