1. Theoretical background: What is politeness ?
In this section we will start with theoretical aspects that might be usefull when looking at insults.
General Linguistics
Selected Subfields
- History of English
- Focus and Content
- The Early Modern Period - Sociohistorical Context
- Identifying central problems
- Morphology in Early Modern English
- Phonology in Early Modern English
- The invention of new words by Shakespeare
- Focus and Content
- Syntactic Theory
- Cognitive Approaches
- Language and Media
- Sociolinguistics
- Theories and Methods in Linguistics