Directness and Indirectness Across Cultures [[electronic resource] /] / by Sara Mills, Karen Grainger
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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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| Pubblicazione: | London : , : Palgrave Macmillan UK : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2016 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. 2016. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (188 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 401/.45 |
| Soggetto topico: | Discourse analysis |
| Sociolinguistics | |
| Communication | |
| Pragmatics | |
| Discourse Analysis | |
| Communication Studies | |
| Classificazione: | LAN004000LAN009030LAN009050 |
| Persona (resp. second.): | GraingerKaren |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Directness and Indirectness Across Cultures |
| ISBN: | 9781137340399 |
| 1-349-55871-0 | |
| 1-137-34038-X | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910253317903321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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