English language teaching tends to deal with the pleasanter side of second-language interaction such as making friends, relating experiences, and expressing likes/dislikes while ignoring such everyday communicative realities ...

English language teaching tends to deal with the pleasanter side of second-language interaction such as making friends, relating experiences, and expressing likes/dislikes while ignoring such everyday communicative realities ...

Este artículo introduce una distinción entre dos modos de pensar lo común y lo político en el pensamiento político post-fundacional que llamo “político” e “impolítico”. Ambas posiciones comparten la idea de que la comunidad ...

Foreign language (FL) users often come head-to-head with potentially difficult face-threatening situations in the target language (TL) where they have to respond immediately and appropriately. Sociocultural and linguistic ...

Considering online comments as a genre of controversial potential that favors the emergence of impolite acts—as it generally presents antagonistic points of view—, this paper aims to assess the potentiality of the Modular ...

Os estudos sobre a impolidez têm englobado uma ampla gama de relações e cenários sociais, incluindo alguns nos quais os meios para alcançá-la são apenas, ou pelo menos, mais especificamente linguísticos. Entre esses cenários, ...

This study aims at analyzing the role of metadiscursive comments as impoliteness strategy performed by political opponents in two electoral debates. According to Cunha and Braga (2018, p. 171), the metadiscursive comment ...