@ARTICLE{Bobin2023:i7724,
	author="{Bobin, Joanna}",
	title="{The expression of passive aggression in family conflicts in selected American plays}",
	year="2023",
	type="artykuł naukowy",
	language="en",
	journal="{Język. Religia. Tożsamość}",
	issn="2083-8964",
	volume="2",
	number="28",
	pages="21--39",
	doi="10.5604/01.3001.0054.3265",
	url="https://jezyk.religia.tozsamosc.ajp.edu.pl/resources/html/article/details?id=619138",
	keywords="American drama; pragmatics; pragmastylistics; characterization",
	abstract="{The article presents sample forms of expression of passive aggressiveness in family conflicts in selected American plays. It briefly describes the notion of passive aggression, dating back to post-war era and originally used to denote passive resistance against superiors. The linguistic expression of passive aggression relies mostly on indirectness as a means of avoiding confrontation, hurting the other person subtly though with a clear intention. Frameworks from the fields of pragmatics and pragmastylistics, such as the concept of face, implicature, theories of (im) politeness or turn-taking facilitate the understanding of how passive-aggressive utterances are constructed and expressed and provide implicit characterization cues that help the reader infer the character participating in conflict.}",
}