Publications

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

Keywords

context | politeness | request | sequential organization

Language as a subject

English | Greek, Modern

Place, Publisher

Walter de Gruyter

ISBN

0165-2516

Journal WWW

www.degruyter.com/journal/key/IJSL/html

Review of

Sifianou, Maria. 1992. Politeness phenomena in England and Greece. A Cross-Cultural Perspective. Clarendon Press.

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.