Publications
Publication details [#25731]
O'Driscoll, Jim. 1996. About face: A defence and elaboration of universal dualism. Journal of Pragmatics 25 (1) : 1–32. ![DOI logo](https://benjamins.com/logos/doi-logo.svg)
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
Language as a subject
Arabic | Chinese | English, British | German | Greek, Modern | Igbo | Japanese | Languages, Western European | Urdu
Place, Publisher
Elsevier
ISBN
0378-2166
Journal WWW
Annotation
This paper attempts to refute criticism on the pancultural validity of Brown and Levinson's politeness theory by an elaboration of the concepts of positive and negative face as universal phenomena and by a revision of the characteristics and the etiological basis and nature of this distinction.