Politeness : some universals in language usage /

Brown, Penelope.

Politeness : some universals in language usage / Penelope Brown and Stephen C. Levinson. - Cambridge [Cambridgeshire] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1987. - xiv, 345 p. ; 23 cm. - Studies in interactional sociolinguistics ; 4 .

"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: p. 301-327.

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Sociolinguistics.
Etiquette.
Conversation.
Pragmatics.
Speech acts (Linguistics)
Social interaction.
Language and languages--Usage.

P40.5 / .B81 1987

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