Mismatched Expectations and Rudeness

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Rudeness can occur any place at anytime in social interactions. People not only become rude, intentionally or unintentionally, but also become the recipient of rude behavior in both verbal and non-verbal settings. However, contrary to the extensive studies on politeness in linguistic interaction (Brown, and Levinson, 1978; Blum-Kulka, 1987; Fraser, 1990; Kasper, 1990; Lakoff, 1989; Leech, 1983), rudeness has not been the main focus of research in sociolinguistics or related disciplines thus far (Beebe, 1993). Therefore, this paper explores relatively untouched features of rudeness, and aims to describe sociolinguistic patterns observed in the data on rudeness which occurs especially when the speakers and the addressees have different expectations in their communicative interactions.
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