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Publication details [#31886]

Pavlidou, Theodossia. 1991. Cooperation and the choice of linguistic means: Some evidence from the use of the subjunctive in modern Greek. Journal of Pragmatics 15 (1) : 11–42.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

communication | indirectness | interrogative1 | politeness

Language as a subject

Greek, Modern

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

ISBN

0378-2166

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

This article examines a rather neglected factor in the discussion of politeness and indirectness, that is, the degree of the partners' cooperativity towards a common goal, focusing on the syntactic form of subjunctive interrogatives in Modern Greek.