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>From: Anja Keul <a.keul@Smail.Uni-Koeln.de>
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>Subject: Relevance and Verbal Insults
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>Dear all,
>
>I am starting on a (German-English) Magister M.A. thesis on Relevance The=
>ory
>and insults. The title is "Exploiting the Implicit: Verbal Insults".
>In pragmatic theories of politeness, indirectness is seen as the underlyi=
>ng
>motivation of an individual to choose the linguistically polite way of
>saying something, i.e. politeness is seen as expressing something indirec=
>tly
>whereas insults are seen as being (too) direct. My aim will be to show th=
>at
>insults can be expressed covertly or overtly indirectly/implicitly, too,
>even accidentally, and thereby are sometimes even more abusive. The heare=
>r
>has to derive offensive implicatures along Relevance Theory`s factors of
>processing effort and cognitive effects. Speakers are able to exploit
>implicitness/indirectness since they do not have to commit to the
>implicature derived by the hearer and the responsiblity to derive the ful=
>l
>utterance meaning is on the hearer`s side. Thus, acts of verbal abuse
>provide a special opportunity for the study of responsibility, evidence a=
>nd
>even creativity in talk.
>
>It would be a great help to me if you let me know about related literatur=
>e
>or examples which I could use for evidence. Thanks a lot,
>Anja Keul
>University of Cologne
>
>
>Anja Keul
>Clemensstr. 29
>50676 K=F6ln
>0221-2407502
>a.keul@smail.uni-koeln.de
>
>
>
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