On apologising in negative and positive politeness cultures

On apologising in negative and positive politeness cultures / Eva Ogiermann.

This book investigates how speakers of English, Polish and Russian deal with offensive situations. It reveals culture-specific perceptions of what counts as an apology and what constitutes politeness. It offers a critical discussion of Brown and Levinson's theory and provides counterevidence to...

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Main Author: Ogiermann, Eva
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., ©2009.
Series:Pragmatics & beyond ; new ser., v. 191.
Subjects:
Apologizing > Cross-cultural studies.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Linguistics > Sociolinguistics.
Apologizing
Cross-cultural studies
Online Access:Click for online access
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Summary:This book investigates how speakers of English, Polish and Russian deal with offensive situations. It reveals culture-specific perceptions of what counts as an apology and what constitutes politeness. It offers a critical discussion of Brown and Levinson's theory and provides counterevidence to the correlation between indirectness and politeness underlying their theory. Their theory is applied to two languages that rely less heavily on indirectness in conveying politeness than does English, and to a speech act that does not become more polite through indirectness. An analysis of the face consi.
Physical Description:1 online resource (x, 296 pages) : illustrations
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9789027288899
9027288895
9789027254351
9027254354
ISSN:0922-842X ;
Source of Description, Etc. Note:Print version record.

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