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Politeness : some universals in language usage
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- Creator
- Penelope Brown and Stephen C. Levinson
- Format
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- Language
- English
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- Publication
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- Cambridge [Cambridgeshire] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1987
- Physical Details
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- xiv, 345 pages ; 23 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780521308625, 0521308623, 9780521313551, 0521313554
- OCLC
- ocm14413158
- "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.
- 1. Introduction -- 2. Summarized argument -- 3. The argument: intuitive bases and derivative definitions -- 4. On the nature of the model -- 5. Realizations of politeness strategies in language -- 6. Derivative hypotheses -- 7. Sociological implications -- 8. Implications for language studies