Impoliteness in interaction

This study concerns the nature of impoliteness in face-to-face spoken interaction. For more than three decades many pragmatic and sociolinguistic studies of interaction have considered politeness to be one central explanatory concept governing and underpinning face-to-face interaction. Politeness�...

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Main Author:	Bousfield, Derek
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Amsterdam, Netherland Philadelphia, PA John Benjamins 2008
Series:	Pragmatics & beyond new ser., 167
Subjects:	Interpersonal communication Politeness (Linguistics) Discourse analysis
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