“…Furthermore, impoliteness is also situated in interactional contexts. Although impoliteness studies have examined both face-to-face or offline interaction ( Bousfield, 2008 ; Culpeper, 1996 , 2011 ) and online interaction ( Blitvich, 2018 ; Fedriani, 2019 ; Locher, 2011 ; Parvaresh and Tayebi, 2018 ; Perelmutter, 2018 ; Vladimirou and House, 2018 ), the interplay between these two interactional contexts and participants’ situated judgment of impoliteness acts in the two interactional contexts is rarely discussed in literature. The online interaction is not completely isolated from or independent of offline interaction, in that the online interaction can sometimes be evoked by impoliteness in offline interaction and it is a continuum of the discussion and debate in offline interaction.…”