Im/Politeness Implicatures / / Michael Haugh.

This volume brings together two highly researched but also highly controversial concepts, those of politeness and implicature. A theory of implicature as social action and im/politeness as social practice is developed that opens up new ways of examining the relationship between them. It constitutes...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2015 Part 1
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Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2014]
©2015
Year of Publication:2014
Language:English
Series:Mouton Series in Pragmatics [MSP] , 11
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Physical Description:1 online resource (357 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of tables and figures
  • Transcription conventions
  • Morphological gloss conventions
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • Chapter One: Indirectness and im/politeness
  • Chapter Two: Approaches to implicature
  • Chapter Three: Implicature, social action and indeterminacy
  • Chapter Four: Implicature, im/politeness and social practice
  • Chapter Five: Situating im/politeness implicatures in interaction
  • Chapter Six: Politeness implicatures and social action
  • Chapter Seven: Impoliteness implicatures and offence
  • Chapter Eight: Conclusion
  • References
  • Index