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Politeness : some universals in language usage /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Brown, Penelope
Other Authors: Levinson, Stephen C.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge [Cambridgeshire] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1987.
Series:Studies in interactional sociolinguistics ; 4.
Subjects:
Sociolinguistics.
Etiquette.
Conversation.
Pragmatics.
Speech acts (Linguistics)
Social interaction.
Description
Item Description:"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.
Physical Description:xiv, 345 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Bibliography:Bibliography: pages 301-327.
ISBN:0521308623
0521313554 (pbk.)