Samuel Bourgeois Author

Samuel Bourgeois is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK and a recipient of the SNSF Postdoc.Mobility grant award (#210773). His main research interests include pragmatics with a focus on (im)politeness studies focusing primarily on political rhetoric and entertaining impoliteness. 

Derek Bousfield is Reader in Pragmatics and Communication and Co-Director of The Manchester Centre for Research in Linguistics at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK. He teaches and conducts research in Stylistics, Critical Pragmatics, Interactional Linguistics, Sociolinguistics, and Critical Discourse Analysis.