“You cannot possibly be that arrogant!” - Impoliteness in The Big Bang Theory

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— A linguistics workshop at the Gymnasium zum Altenforst in Troisdorf. At the end of May 2017, we did a workshop on the topic of impoliteness and how to find it in the TV series "The Big Bang Theory". We, that is Pawel Sickinger, research assistant in our department "Bonn Applied English Linguistics” (BAEL), and me, student of the Masters program “Applied Linguistics" and student assistant in the same department. The workshop we moderated was part of a linguistics project course organised by...