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Publication details [#31898]

Hickey, Leo. 1991. Surprise, surprise, but do so politely. Journal of Pragmatics 15 (4) : 367–372.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

apologizing | face maintenance | politeness | warning

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

ISBN

0378-2166

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

This paper deals with the efficiency of attempts to mitigate the potential face threat involved in the act of surprising, such as a warning or an apology.