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 the similarities and differences …

In this paper I shall argue that we have to focus on units of pragmatic analysis such as the
pragmeme. A pragmeme is a situated speech act in which the rules of language and of …

Gisela Harras Handlungssprache und Sprechhandlung Eine Einführung in die
theoretischen Grundlagen 2., durchgesehene und erweiterte Auflage wDEG Walter de …

One key aspect of threat in terrorists' language is incitement to violence. Contributing to a
fuller understanding of how terrorists use language to encourage people to join their cause …

This paper revisits Grice's Co-operational Principle (CP). It argues that to take proper
account of maxims, their exploitation and relevance, a recontextualizing of the CP in line …

Despite its centrality to religiously aggravated hate crime recorded in England and Wales,
the nature of the language used has been neglected in research. This paper, based on a …

Two of the goals of human communication are: to be understood and to be believed. In
persuasive communication, both of these acts are fulfilled. Pragmatists have investigated the …

This paper criticizes previous approaches to perlocutions and previous formalizations of
perlocutionary effects of communicative actions by showing that some of their fundamental …

Бабелюк ОА–доктор філологічних наук, професор кафедри технічного перекладу
навчально-наукового інституту психології і соціальної роботи Львівського державного …

The tradition in (im) politeness research so far has been to focus on oral corpora and
sometimes on written texts, paying scant attention to multimodal texts such as political …