Despite the fact that Japanese etiquette emphasizes politeness, empathy, and sympathy for
the feelings and “face” of others, post-war era in Japan, and especially the last forty years …

This paper seeks to investigate the indexical links (Silverstein, 2003) to social values
activated by terms like “covid” and “virus” in tweets from users with opposing political …

The purpose of this study is to examine how aggressive forms of impoliteness and
debasement are deployed in the discourse of Greek parliamentarians in the years 2019 …

On the pretext of safeguarding democratic values in contemporary societies, various forms of
debasement language have become an integral part of political discourse. Impregnating …

This chapter investigates labels and attributes employed to debase political opponents. The
corpus consists of 70 statements of various politicians and political parties from Montenegro …