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- Title
Implying an impolite belief: A case of <italic>tikkeh</italic> in Persian.
- Authors
Tayebi, Tahmineh
- Abstract
The focus of this study is on a particular type of implied impoliteness in Persian commonly known as <italic>tikkeh</italic>. Given the lack of critical attention paid to the notion of implied impoliteness in the literature, the present study seeks to explore this issue further by addressing the following questions: (i) What is implied impoliteness? (ii) What are the properties which make it different from other types of conventionalized impoliteness? (iii) For whom is it offensive? And finally (iv) how does one evaluate an implied meaning as offensive? It will be argued that, in the right context, any utterance can potentially be evaluated as a <italic>tikkeh</italic> which can convey a negative impolite belief about the ratified and/or unratified hearer(s). In this respect, examples from both dyadic and polylogal interactions are provided. Along the way, the influence of relational histories as well as interpersonal expectations are also discussed.
- Subjects
LINGUISTIC politeness; INSINUATION (Civil law); PRAGMATICS; SEMANTICS; PERSIAN language
- Publication
Intercultural Pragmatics, 2018, Vol 15, Issue 1, p89
- ISSN
1612-295X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1515/ip-2017-0031