Investigating impoliteness strategies and power in a number of English literary texts : a pragmatic study

الملخص EN

Many pragmatic studies have looked at impoliteness in general, but it appears that the impoliteness strategies as a pragmatic phenomenon has been overlooked.

As a result, using Culpeper's (2010) model of impoliteness strategies, this paper deals with impoliteness in English literary texts to examine the types of strategies of impoliteness.

In addition, the ways in which characters utilize their social power to use impolite acts to attack others in order to reach their aims.

It is important to note that this paper takes qualitative and quantitative approaches to the strategies since it describes unique pragmatic phenomenon known as impoliteness.

The study demonstrates that in English contexts the characters use impoliteness strategies according to social power and context.