Du rapport entre la négation et l’impolitesse dans les Exchanges d’informations face a face en français

In this paper, I seek to analyze linguistic impoliteness in ordinary conversation in French and, more specifically, in the exchange of face-to-face information. Thanks to its functional structure (i.e. question-response), the exchange of information is a privileged type of interaction, in which we can observe the relationship between language and culture. Throughout a study of interactional mechanisms involving the recurring negative sequence (a) Je ne sais pas moi (literally : I don’t know, me), I interrogate what distinguishes (a) to the sequence (b) Moi je ne sais pas(literally : Me, I do...