Impoliteness and hate speech: Compare and contrast

Both impoliteness and hate speech deal with offensive behaviour, yet it is also obvious that they are not exactly the same. This paper aims to tease out similarities differences. The first part concentrates on theorising by scholars, thus takes a second-order perspective. It discusses notions of face (largely overlooked in studies speech), incitement impoliteness) intentionality (and related concepts) (examined both speech, though often without explicit connections other field). second paper, taking more first-order perspective, metapragmatics labels which approached through terms impolite hateful. Hateful, comparison characterised extreme behaviours, emotion hurt, associations prejudice. provides demonstration what one can do corpus-methods. Overall, hoped this will promote theoretical synergies, greater awareness used.