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Publication details [#11862]

Buck, R.A. 1997. Towards an Extended Theory of Face Action: Analyzing Dialogue in E.M. Forster's A Passage to India. Journal of Pragmatics 27 (1) : 83–106. 24 pp.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
conversational exchange | cooperative principle | dialogue | face-threatening act | face-to-face interaction | language theory | politeness | sequential organization | speech act
Language as a subject
English
Person as a subject
Brown, P. | Forster, E.M. | Levinson, S.
Place, Publisher
Elsevier
ISBN
0378-2166
Journal WWW
www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

The sequential interaction of politeness strategies with other face acts is examined. It is shown that, contrary to Brown & Levinson's politeness theory, face actions are not restricted to face-threatening acts.