Publications
Publication details [#14043]
Jary, Mark. 1998. Relevance theory and the communication of politeness. Journal of Pragmatics 30 (1) : 1–19. 
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
Place, Publisher
Elsevier
ISBN
0378-2166
Journal WWW
Annotation
A critique of the Gricean, norm-based perspective on polite verbal behavior, which leads to an alternative Relevance Theoretic account of linguistic politeness.