The pragmatics of politeness / Geoffrey Leech.
This readable book presents a new general theoretical understanding of politeness. It offers an account of a wide range of politeness phenomena in English, illustrated by hundreds of examples of actual language use taken largely from authentic British and American sources. Building on his earlier pi...
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| Format: | Ebook |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
[2014]
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| Series: | Oxford studies in sociolinguistics.
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| Online Access: | University Press Scholarship Online Complete Collection |
| Summary: | This readable book presents a new general theoretical understanding of politeness. It offers an account of a wide range of politeness phenomena in English, illustrated by hundreds of examples of actual language use taken largely from authentic British and American sources. Building on his earlier pioneering work on politeness, Geoffrey Leech takes a pragmatic approach that is based on the controversial notion that politeness is communicative altruism. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xvi, 343 pages). |
| Format: | Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 0190225939 9780190225933 |