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Politeness : some universals in language usage / Penelope Brown and Stephen C. Levinson.
LIBRA P40.5.E75 B76 1987
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Van Pelt Library P40.5.E75 B76 1987
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Brown, Penelope.
- Series:
- Studies in interactional sociolinguistics ; 4.
- Studies in interactional sociolinguistics ; 4
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sociolinguistics.
- Etiquette.
- Conversation.
- Pragmatics.
- Speech acts (Linguistics).
- Social interaction.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 345 pages ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge [Cambridgeshire] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1987.
- Summary:
- This study is about the principles for constructing polite speech.
- Notes:
- "The bulk of the material in this volume first appeared in a collection in the series Cambridge papers in social anthropology, volume 8"--Foreword.
- Includes indexes.
- Bibliography: pages 301-327.
- ISBN:
- 0521308623
- 0521313554
- OCLC:
- 14413158
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