Warning: this paper contains content that may be offensive or upsetting. Language has the
power to reinforce stereotypes and project social biases onto others. At the core of the …

This book provides a cutting-edge introduction to cross-cultural pragmatics, a field
encompassing the study of language use across linguacultures. Cross-Cultural Pragmatics …

Biased associations have been a challenge in the development of classifiers for detecting
toxic language, hindering both fairness and accuracy. As potential solutions, we investigate …

This chapter focuses on genuine linguistic impoliteness, that is to say, linguistic material that
is associated with offensive effects. It discusses some of the most central concepts and …

Social media can be seen as “sites of self-presentation and identity negotiation” whose
affordances facilitate the production and promotion of both individual and collective …

Warning: This paper contains content that may be offensive or upsetting. Understanding the
harms and offensiveness of statements requires reasoning about the social and situational …

Most social robot behaviors in human-robot interaction are designed to be polite, but there is
little research about how or when a robot could be impolite, and if that may ever be …

Recent approaches to im/politeness have emphasised the importance of lay understandings
of politeness and suggested that they should constitute the locus of attention in politeness …

Most politicians are now utilizing social media such as Twitter, Facebook… etc. to spread
their thoughts, planning, and politeness. besides, to get the attention and convenience …

This paper explores the workings of impoliteness in globalised social media contexts by
examining a corpus of approximately 1000 tweets, trending during the 2015 mediatised …