Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-298) and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
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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.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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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.
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Title
Politeness.
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Etiquette.
Forms of address.
Sociolinguistics.
Sociolinguistique.
Titres de politesse.
Beleefdheidsvorm.
Discours.
Etiquette.
Forms of address.
Höflichkeit
Kommunikation
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES-- Linguistics-- Sociolinguistics.