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Publication details [#30754]

Stroinska, Magda and V. Cecchetto. 1996. Systems of self-reference and address forms in intellectual discourse. Language Sciences 18 (3-4) : 777–789.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

address | crosslinguistic perspective | intelligence | politeness | self-reference

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

ISBN

0388-0001

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

This paper considers the use of politeness in self-reference and audience-reference in intellectual discourse as a direct result of the rhetoric of science and as a display in terms of power and solidarity. It then compares the reference systems employed in intellectual discourse in various languages.