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Linguistic Impoliteness in (Translated) Children's Fiction

Linguistic Impoliteness in (Translated) Children's Fiction

Pleyer, Monika
Polzenhagen, Frank

Hardcover

Series: Dask - Duisburger Arbeiten Zur Sprach- Und Kulturwissenschaft / Duisburg Papers On Research In Langu, Book 128

GermanItalianTeaching Instruction

ISBN10: 3631881509
ISBN13: 9783631881507
Publisher: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der W
Published: Aug 25 2022
Pages: 352
Weight: 1.35
Height: 0.94 Width: 5.83 Depth: 8.27
Language: English

This book presents the first large-scale investigation of the structure and functions of linguistic impoliteness and impoliteness metalanguage in contemporary British children's fiction. The study ties together findings from pragmatics, language acquisition research, literary studies, and translation studies with novel data-driven insights. The study shows that children's fiction prefers direct, unmitigated impoliteness tokens to highlight key aspects of plot and characterisation. Impoliteness metalanguage is used to clarify impoliteness events to the child. The study provides a framework for the investigation of impoliteness in translation, which gives evidence of pragmatic differences, as well as differing views of children's cognitive abilities in two linguacultures.

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