![]() ![]() Furthermore, it highlights the variation of impoliteness strategies used by characters. This research paper is intended to examine the opposite direction of politeness 'impoliteness phenomenon' in George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion (1913). In other words, they studied the communicative situations where the speaker's purpose is to damage a hearer's face rather than softening face threatening acts. Meanwhile, Brown and Levinson dealt with politeness as a knotty framework applied to soften face threatening acts, other linguists including, Culpeper, Bousfield and Eelen, headed for the opposite direction of politeness. Brown and Levinson's model of politeness (1987) paved the way for linguists to explore the phenomenon of impoliteness. ![]()
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