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Publication details [#25698]
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
Place, Publisher
Elsevier
ISBN
0378-2166
Journal WWW
Annotation
This article critically reexamines the framework of Brown and Levinson's politeness theory and its application in the treatment of politeness phenomena. An alternative, broader view of politeness, defined as appropriateness, is offered and a new approach to the study of Repair Work which incorporates the notion of interactional speech within a framework of social interaction.