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Publication details [#31855]
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
Place, Publisher
Elsevier
ISBN
0378-2166
Journal WWW
Annotation
This article characterizes and discusses four current approaches to an account of politeness: the social-norm view; the conversational-maxim view; the face-saving view; and the conversational-contract view. Although none of the views is considered adequate, the face-saving view appears to be the most clearly articulated and most thoroughly elaborated framework.