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Keywords = power
Number of Articles: 2
Being Politically Impolite: A Community of Practice (CofP) Analysis of Invective Songs of Western Nigerian Politicians
Volume 4, 1 (Special Issue on African Cultures and Languages) , March 2016, , Pages 103-116
Abstract
Earlier linguistic studies of political discourse revealed that, not many works exist on pragmatic analysis of impoliteness in this genre. Apart from Mullany (2002), who employs relational and face works to analyses impoliteness in political discourse, Taiwo (2007), Adetunji (2009), and Ademilokun (2015), ... Read MoreGendered Communication in Iranian University Classrooms: The Relationship between Politeness and Silence in Persian Culture
Volume 1, Issue 1 , March 2013, , Pages 118-130