Title:
Politeness / Richard J. Watts.
Key topics in sociolinguistics
Author:
Watts, Richard J.
General Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Publisher:
Cambridge University Press,
Publication Place:
Cambridge, UK ; New York :
ISBN:
0521790859
0521794064 (pbk.)
Subject:
Sociolinguistics.
Etiquette.
Forms of address.
Series:
Key topics in sociolinguistics
Contents:
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.
Physical Description:
xiv, 304 p. : ill. ;
Electronic Location:
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/samples/cam034/2003043599.html
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/cam032/2003043599.html
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/cam031/2003043599.html
Publication Date:
2003.
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