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On apologising in negative and positive politeness cultures /
This book investigates how speakers of English, Polish and Russian deal with offensive situations. It reveals culture-specific perceptions of what counts as an apology and what constitutes politeness. It offers a critical discussion of Brown and Levinson's theory and provides counterevidence to...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam ; Philadelphia :
John Benjamins Pub. Co.,
©2009.
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| Colección: | Pragmatics & beyond ;
new ser., v. 191. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | This book investigates how speakers of English, Polish and Russian deal with offensive situations. It reveals culture-specific perceptions of what counts as an apology and what constitutes politeness. It offers a critical discussion of Brown and Levinson's theory and provides counterevidence to the correlation between indirectness and politeness underlying their theory. Their theory is applied to two languages that rely less heavily on indirectness in conveying politeness than does English, and to a speech act that does not become more polite through indirectness. An analysis of the face consi. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (x, 296 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9789027288899 9027288895 9789027254351 9027254354 |
| ISSN: | 0922-842X ; |