Publications

Publication details [#39027]

Blum-Kulka, Sh. 1987. Indirectness and politeness in requests: Same or different? Journal of Pragmatics 11 (2) : 131–146.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

indirectness | politeness | pragmatics | request

Language as a subject

English | Hebrew

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

This article re-examines indirectness and politeness in relation to requests in Hebrew and English, arguing that indirectness does not necessarily imply politeness.