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Publication details [#30723]

Meier, A. J. 1995. Defining politeness: Universality in appropriateness. Language Sciences 17 (4) : 345–356.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

appropriateness | ethnocentrism | politeness | universal utterance

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

ISBN

0388-0001

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

This paper re-examines relevant literature on politeness to bring some order to the issue and proposes a view of politeness as appropriate behavior, which provides a basis for a broader claim for universals and lowers the danger of ethnocentrism.