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Brown, Penelope and Stephen C. Levinson. 1978. Universals in language usage: Politeness phenomena. In Goody, Esther N., ed. Questions and politeness: Strategies in social interaction. Cambridge University Press. pp. 56–288.

Publication type

Article in book

Publication language

English

Keywords

language universal | politeness

Annotation

B. and L. observe that there are numerous parallelisms between unrelated languages, even when it comes to apparently irrational types of usage. They discuss politeness as a motive for such usages.