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The research aims to explore how ad hoc concept construction helps mitigate impoliteness in Jordanian Arabic.

June 15, 2026Open LinguisticsOpen Access

On ad hoc concept construction and impoliteness mitigation: evidence from Jordanian Arabic

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Analyzes how ad hoc concept construction mitigates impoliteness in Jordanian Arabic, suggesting cultural implications.

The research aims to explore how ad hoc concept construction helps mitigate impoliteness in Jordanian Arabic.
Analyzed naturally occurring conversations in informal, workplace, and public settings.
Filtered approximately 500 instances to identify 21 key lexical-pragmatic resources.
Focus on explicature derivation, implicature calculation, and other interpretation cues.
Key expressions trigger ad hoc concepts that help reduce offence and manage disagreement.
Identify how these adjustments are culturally situated within Jordanian Arabic interactions.
Clarify the influence of prosodic and sequential cues on meaning interpretation.

Khalifah et al. (2026) studied this question.

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