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Publication details [#38970]

Wierzbicka, Anna. 1985. Different cultures, different languages, different speech acts : Polish vs. English. Journal of Pragmatics 9 (2-3) : 145–178.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

interethnic communication | language and culture | politeness | speech act

Language as a subject

English | English, Australian | Polish

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

This paper links a range of differences between English and Polish in the field of speech acts to different cultural norms and assumptions and discusses some consequences for interethnic communication.