Publications

Publication details [#27558]

Mehrotra, Raja Ram. 1995. How to be polite in Indian English. International Journal of the Sociology of Language (116) : 99–110.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

address | crosslinguistic perspective | language and culture | politeness | thanking

Language as a subject

English, American | English, British | English, Indian

Place, Publisher

De Gruyter Mouton

ISBN

0165-2516

Journal WWW

www.degruyter.com/journal/key/IJSL/html

Annotation

This paper compares politeness verbalization in Indian English with politeness phraseology in British and American English.