Browsing by Subject "politeness"
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Denoting Offence
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Formulaic Thought and Expression in Linguistic Politeness
(Peter Lang, 2019)Formulaic expressions constitute a heterogeneous category, in that some exhibit robust re-combinatory potential through modifiable and re-useable internal compositionality. Subcategories of linguistic politeness ... -
Multimodal Conformity of Expression between Blog Names and Content
(IEEE, 2013)Using a sentiment lexicon for German translated into English, Italian, Spanish and Swedish, Tumblr URL names for blog archives are inspected with regard to the category of the content. Across the five languages, where the ... -
Quantitative and Qualitive Analysis of Politeness and Gender Effects in Romantic Comedies
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Linguistic Speech & Comm Sci. C.L.C.S., 2022)This study investigates differences in markers of politeness between male and female characters in romantic comedies. While focusing on the gender of the speaker, the impact of the gender of the addressee and of the ... -
Some Puzzles of Politeness and Impoliteness within a Formal Semantics of Offensive Language
(Springer, 2015)Puzzles of linguistic politeness and impoliteness are outlined. A framework for articulating formal semantic theories of linguistic politeness and impoliteness is adopted. The framework provides a foundation for a ... -
Taboo Semantics
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Taking Offence
(2020)Between speakers and addressees, the perception of offensiveness in natural language may diverge distinctly to the potential for divergence of understanding of lexical content. Historically, the perception of offensiveness ...