Pushing against the boundaries: Entertaining impoliteness and taboo discourse in the Egyptian TV show Abla Fahita

Impoliteness can be defined as the use of “communicative strategies” which are “designed to attack face, and thereby cause social conflict and disharmony” (Culpeper et al. 2003, 1564). The present study applies Jonathan Culpeper’s (2011a) model of “impoliteness” supplemented by the notions of jocula...

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Main Author: Ibrahim Wesam M. A.
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: De Gruyter 2021-07-01
Series:Open Linguistics
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1515/opli-2021-0022