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The strategic use of impoliteness to convey caring relations: A Philippine cultural perspective (2009)
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Victoria, M. (2009, June). The strategic use of impoliteness to convey caring relations: A Philippine cultural perspective. Paper presented at Linguistic Impoliteness And Rudeness Conference, Lancaster University

It has been claimed that in some discourse contexts, huge power differential and training philosophy account for the pervasiveness of impoliteness (Culpeper 1996: 359). In this ethnographic-based study of two nursing classrooms in the Philippines, I... Read More about The strategic use of impoliteness to convey caring relations: A Philippine cultural perspective.