Publications

Publication details [#39061]

Srivastava, R.N. and Ira Pandit. 1988. The pragmatic basis of syntactic structures and the politeness hierarchy in Hindi. Journal of Pragmatics 12 (2) : 185–202.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

politeness | pragmatics | syntactic structure

Language as a subject

Hindi

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

This article deals with some aspects of ceremonial avoidance and presentational ritual conveyed by the pragmatic connotations of five syntactic Hindi structures.