The Conceptualisation of Impoliteness in Russian and English

The article analyses the concept of “impoliteness” in Russian and English. On the basis of the material taken from various explanatory dictionaries and corpus data the article presents a comparative analysis of the Russian and English words for “impolite”, which provides a means of identifying cultu...

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Main Author: Margarita L Kharlova
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Peoples' Friendship University of Russia (RUDN University) 2014-12-01
Series:Russian journal of linguistics: Vestnik RUDN
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Online Access:http://journals.rudn.ru/linguistics/article/view/9387