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Fredrick Friday John and Nobuhle Ndimande-Hlongwa
Pragmatic Acts. Three discourse features triggered impoliteness in political banter: control, affiliation, and status moderation. Attempts to gain territorial and cross-territorial control caused impolite banter; conflicts were caused … intra-party affiliation, while attacks on personality and name-calling, with attempts at status moderation, caused impoliteness. Six impolite attacking strategies, namely, accusing, insulting, undermining, mocking, threatening, and mocking