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    STUDIA PHILOLOGIA - Issue no. 3 / 2009  
         
  Article:   HOW TO ABUSE SOMEBODY: A PRAGMATIC APPROACH TO KNOWING HOW TO BE IMPOLITE.

Authors:  CORINA PĂCURAR. 		 
       
         
  Abstract:  If we consider the cultural, historical, and social variety of insults, their relative dependence upon particular contexts, the fact that some of them involve the law (as in slander and libel) while others do not, the fact that some of them are indirect (as in hints and insinuations), and the fact that many of them involve a general cultural knowledge that is to be clearly distinguished from linguistic knowledge, all this mitigates against any uniform understanding of abusive language. In what follows we will try to identify several semantic and pragmatic classes.

Keywords: politeness principle, aggravation, off/on record, face-saving devices 		 
         
     
         
         
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