RETRACTED: A Comparative Analysis of the Inherent Linguistic Impoliteness in the “YOU NP” Structure between English and Chinese

Rou Huang

School of International Studies, Hangzhou Normal University, Hangzhou, China.

DOI: 10.4236/jss.2024.124019                

Abstract

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Keywords

“YOU NP” Structure, Impoliteness, Corpus Pragmatics, Linguistic Forms

Conflicts of Interest

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