Structural impoliteness ranges from words and phrases to portions of texts, thus the syntactic dimension cuts across the complexity dimension. The semantic/pragmatic dimension includes numerous non-literal meanings of impoliteness. An utterance can be judged as impolite on the basis of its surface ...
Canonical discourse deixis include the demonstratives 'this' and 'that', certain words and phrases showing the semantic relations of the co-text such as 'but', 'therefore', 'in conclusion', 'to the contrary', 'besides', 'above all', etc. as well as certain adjectives such as 'previous'...