Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/12507
Title: "It's rude to VP": The cultural semantics of rudeness
Contributor(s): Waters, Sophia  (author)orcid 
Publication Date: 2012
DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2012.02.002
Handle Link: https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/12507
Abstract: Over recent years, linguists have given an increasing amount of attention to impoliteness studies (Bousfield, 2008, Culpeper et al., 2003, Kienpointner, 1997, Meier, 1995a, Meier, 1995b and Mills, 2009). Oddly however, little attention has yet been paid to the semantics of the English word rude. Lacking precise translation equivalents in many languages, rude is a keyword revealing much about socially accepted ways of behaving in Anglo society (Wierzbicka, 1997; cf. Fox, 2004). In Australian English, as in English generally, it is the primary ethno-descriptor in the domain of "impoliteness". This paper provides a detailed lexical semantic analysis of rude in the productive formula It's rude to VP, and also in the fixed expression rude word. The semantic explications are framed in the simple universal primes of the Natural Semantic Metalanguage (NSM) (Goddard and Wierzbicka, 2002, Peeters, 2006 and Wierzbicka, 1996). The argumentation is supported by data on Australian English collected from Google searches.
Publication Type: Journal Article
Source of Publication: Journal of Pragmatics, 44(9), p. 1051-1062
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Place of Publication: Netherlands
ISSN: 0378-2166
Fields of Research (FoR) 2008: 200408 Linguistic Structures (incl Grammar, Phonology, Lexicon, Semantics)
200405 Language in Culture and Society (Sociolinguistics)
200403 Discourse and Pragmatics
Fields of Research (FoR) 2020: 470408 Lexicography and semantics
470411 Sociolinguistics
470405 Discourse and pragmatics
Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2008: 950201 Communication Across Languages and Culture
Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2020: 130201 Communication across languages and culture
130202 Languages and linguistics
280116 Expanding knowledge in language, communication and culture
Peer Reviewed: Yes
HERDC Category Description: C1 Refereed Article in a Scholarly Journal
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