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Ivan Stamenkovi
(shubyyo@gmail.com)
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THE INDIVIDUAL CONSTRUCTION OF MEANING THROUGH THE
PERCEPTION OF IMPOLITENESS THE ASPECTS OF FACE MOST
FREQUENTLY ENDANGERED IN SERBIA

Using the framework of pragmatic theory of impoliteness (Bousfield 2008), this paper
addresses the issue of how the meaning of impolite utterances is constructed by individuals
through the perception of face attack. Face, the central concept of impoliteness, is defined as
the positive social value a person effectively claims for himself/herself by the line others
assume he/she has taken during a particular contact (Goffman 1967: 5). The aim of this paper
is to ascertain how individuals attribute meaning to an impolite utterance by exploring which
of the five aspects of face defined by Spencer-Oatey (2000) is primarily targeted by
impoliteness in Serbia. The analytical framework used is Spencer-Oateys rapport
management (e.g. 2000), which postulates various aspects of face. A clarification of this
framework is presented along with the way it was accommodated for a quantitative analysis
of ambiguous situations, the whole framework being adapted from Culpeper et al. (2010). A
corpus of 100 entries containing impoliteness situations gathered via an online survey was
analyzed following the previously established guidelines and methodology in order to
determine the prevalent aspect of face that is attacked in impoliteness situations.
Keywords: pragmatics, impoliteness, construction of meaning, face, aspects of face,
rapport management