Politeness

Politeness / Richard J. Watts.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Watts, Richard J.
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2003.
Series:	Key topics in sociolinguistics
Subjects:	Sociolinguistics. Etiquette. Forms of address.
Online Access:	Sample text Publisher description Table of contents

Table of Contents:

Introducing linguistic politeness
Politeness through time and across cultures
Modelling linguistic politeness (I)
Modelling linguistic politeness (II): Brown and Levinson and their critics
Facework and linguistic politeness
A social model of politeness
Structures of linguistic politeness
Relevance theory and concepts of power
Politic behaviour and politeness in discourse
Politic behaviour and politeness within a theory of social practice.