Politeness

Penelope (Max-Planck-Institut fur Psycholinguistik, The Netherlands) Brown, Stephen C. (Max-Planck-Institut fur Psycholinguistik, The Netherlands) Levinson

Cambridge University Press, 1987

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This book studies the principles for constructing polite speeches, based on the detailed study of three unrelated languages and cultures. The authors describe and account for some remarkable parallelisms in the linguistic construction of utterances with which people express themselves in different languages and cultures.

ISBN-13
9780521313551
ISBN-10
0521313554
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
1987
Publication date
1987-02-27
Pages
358
Dimensions
215x140x17
Weight
474