Abstract
The following article explores the intersection of linguistics and gender studies, focusing on threats and insults as conflictual speech acts categorized under bald on record impoliteness, a form of impoliteness where the speaker intentionally harms the recipient’s face to denigrate and damage them. In the analysis section, a quantitative method was employed to analyse thirty-five criminal sentences involving gender-based violence, specifically those containing insults and threats directed at women. The analysis examines the collocations, frequency, taxonomy of insults and threats, their pragmatic effects, and perlocutionary force.

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