Culpeper’s Impoliteness Strategies in Neil Simon’s ‘Biloxi Blues’

Impoliteness and mock-impoliteness A descriptive analysis

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Intercultural impoliteness

The paper argues that impoliteness may work differently in intercultural interactions than in L1 communication. Most researchers (cf. Bousfield, 2008; Culpeper, 2009, 2010; Haugh, 2011) analyzing impoliteness within one language seem to agree that no act is inherently impolite, and that such a condition depends on the context or speech situation that affects interpretation. This may not be quit...

Circadian leaf movements in biloxi soybeans.

Leaf movement in Biloxi soybean has been investigated in some detail by Bunning (1) and Holdsworth (2). The results and the interpretations presented by these investigators differ with regard to the nature of the leaf movement response. Bunning considers the leaf movement to be a circadian manifestation of the physiological clock, while Holdsworth considers it to be essentially a photonastic re...

Historicism Blues

“Always historicize!” Fredric Jameson calls this opening salvo from 1981’s The Political Unconscious the book’s “transhistorical imperative” and its “moral” (9). Is this, indeed, the most sacred of all critical commandments? The “thou shalt not kill” of literary studies (above all, perhaps, of American literary studies)? (Nietzsche might have called it, rather, the “thou shalt kill”: in his wor...