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Autore |
Mills Sara |
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Titolo |
Directness and Indirectness Across Cultures [[electronic resource] /] / by Sara Mills, Karen Grainger |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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London : , : Palgrave Macmillan UK : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2016 |
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ISBN |
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9781137340399 |
1-349-55871-0 |
1-137-34038-X |
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Edizione |
[1st ed. 2016.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (188 p.) |
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Classificazione |
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LAN004000LAN009030LAN009050 |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Discourse analysis |
Sociolinguistics |
Communication |
Pragmatics |
Discourse Analysis |
Communication Studies |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Machine generated contents note: -- 1. Introduction: Language, Culture, (Im)politeness and (In)directness2. Theoretical Perspectives on Indirectness3. Theoretical Perspectives on Directness 4. Zimbabwean and British English: A Case Study of Directness and Indirectness across Cultures5. Situated Directness and Indirectness: Monolingual English Speakers6. Linguistic Ideologies: Bilingual Speakers' Evaluations of Indirectness and Directness 7. Conclusions. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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This book analyses the complex relationship between directness, indirectness, politeness and impoliteness. Definitions of directness and indirectness are discussed and problematised from a discursive theoretical perspective. |
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