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Publication details [#39528]

Haugh, Michael. 2004. Revisiting the conceptualisation of politeness in English and Japanese. Multilingua 23 (1-2) : 85–109.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

conceptualization | crosslinguistic perspective | language and culture | politeness

Language as a subject

English | Japanese

Place, Publisher

Walter de Gruyter

Journal WWW

www.degruyter.com/journal/key/MULT/html

Annotation

This paper, drawing on examples from English and Japanese, argues that it is difficult to define politeness in the same way across different cultures, although this does not necessarily mean that no common elements of politeness across cultures can be identified.