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Publication details [#11835]

Kakavá, Christina. 1997. Review article: Politeness and the Particularities of Requests. International Journal of the Sociology of Language 126 : 181–198. 18 pp.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Language as a subject
Place, Publisher
Walter de Gruyter
ISBN
0165-2516

Annotation

Apart from a chapter-by-chapter discussion, the author formulates criticisms concerning methodology (lack of a systematic account of sociolinguistic variation), Sifianou's definition of requests, and her treatment of politeness orientations.