Re: Insults and Relevance
Currently there is only one reference that I can find that directly relates
to impoliteness and relevance:
Austin, Paddy. "The Dark Side of Politeness" which is in 'NZ ways of
Speaking' I think.
There is a small body of literature on Relevance and politeness and the
references to those can be found at the Relevance literature homepage and
within these articles:
www.ua.es/dfing/rt.htm#Polite
At the moment this is a pretty open field.
Felicity
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Felicity Meakins
UQ English Department
Brisbane 4072
ph 3365 4748
'Queen Victoria was like a great paperweight
that for half a century sat upon men's minds
and when she was removed their ideas began
to blow all over the place haphazardly.'
- H.G. Wells
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