Politeness:
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Main Author: Watts, Richard J. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, UK Cambridge University Press 2003
Series:Key topics in sociolinguistics
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Item Description:Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-298) and index
Introducing linguistic politeness -- Politeness through time and across cultures -- Modelling linguistic politeness (I) -- Modelling linguistic politeness (II): Brown and Levinson and their critics -- Facework and linguistic politeness -- A social model of politeness -- Structures of linguistic politeness -- Relevance theory and concepts of power -- Politic behaviour and politeness in discourse -- Politic behaviour and politeness within a theory of social practice
Using a wide range of data from real-life speech situations, this new introduction to politeness breaks away from the limitations of current models and argues that the proper object of study in politeness theory must be commonsense notions of what politeness and impoliteness are
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 304 pages)
ISBN:0511067178
0511069308
9780511067174
9780511069307

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