Language and Social Relationship in Brazilian Portuguese : : The Pragmatics of Politeness / / Dale April Koike.
"Give me the salt" and "Please pass the salt" make the same request, but in a polite situation the first utterance may give offense, while the second may not. How and why such differences in wording and intonation, in a particular context, produce different effects is the concern...
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| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Chapter 1 Pragmatics and Speech Acts: An Overview
- Chapter 2 Politeness as a Social Phenomenon
- Chapter 3 A Pragmatic Hierarchy of Politeness in Directives
- Chapter 4 Deixis and the Pragmatic Hierarchy of Politeness
- Chapter 5 The Acquisition of Strategies for Politeness
- Chapter 6 Further Explorations in the Study of Directive Speech Acts
- Appendix Test for Speech Act Comprehension
- Notes
- References
- Author Index
- Subject Index