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Publication details [#39004]

Ide, Sachiko, Beverly Hill, Shoko Ikuta, Akiko Kawasaki and Tsunao Ogino. 1986. Universals of linguistic politeness : Quantitative evidence from Japanese and American english. Journal of Pragmatics 10 (3) : 347–371.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

crosslinguistic perspective | politeness | request | sociolinguistics

Language as a subject

English, American | Japanese

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

This paper provides empirical quantitative evidence, drawn from Japanese and American english requests, for a common factor, discernment, and a complementary factor, volition, operating in all sociolinguistic politeness systems.