Impoliteness as an indexical marker of flirtatious teasing in Andrew Marvell’s To His Coy Mistress
While existing scholarship has examined the rhetorical structure, gender politics, metaphorical patterns, and psychological undertones of Andrew Marvell’s To His Coy Mistress , the speaker’s use of confrontational, presumptive, and impolite speech acts remains underexplored. This gap obscures how linguistic str...