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Publication details [#45891]

O'Driscoll, Jim. 2007. Brown & Levinson's face: How it can—and can't—help us to understand interaction across cultures. Intercultural Pragmatics 4 (4) : 463–492.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Place, Publisher
De Gruyter

Annotation

The major contention of this article is that Brown & Levinson's concepts of positive and negative face(work) are useful in a broader range of interactive moves than allowed by Brown & Levinson's model.