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Autore: | Mills Sara |
Titolo: | Directness and Indirectness Across Cultures [[electronic resource] /] / by Sara Mills, Karen Grainger |
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 |
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