Impoliteness strategies in parliamentary discourse: a cognitive-pragmatic and sociocultural approach

From the pragmatic point of view, the specific properties of impoliteness strategies in the parliamentary discourses analyzed in this paper reveal their relation to the dominant politeness principles based on national ethic systems: negative linguistic politeness dominates in modern English and positive in Bulgarian, Polish, and Ukrainian.

We hope this exploration of discursive impoliteness strategies used by parliamentarians will help to reveal their ideological commitments and argumentation tactics in parliament. The broader implications of this study for further research lie in the areas of cross-cultural pragmatics and sociolinguistics and concern the need to widen the focus of cognitive-pragmatic studies of political discourse to include its broader genre repertoire.

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