Politeness: Some Universals in Language Usage by Stephen C. Levinson, Penelope Brown

Politeness: Some Universals in Language Usage

Studies in Interactional Sociolinguistics #4

Stephen C. Levinson, Penelope Brown

358 pages first pub 1987 (editions)

nonfiction informative slow-paced
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This study is about the principles for constructing polite speeches. The core of it first appeared in Questions and Politeness, edited by Esther N. Goody (now out of print). It is here reissued with a fresh introduction that surveys the considerab...

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