Publications

Publication details [#48729]

Stewart, Miranda. 2008. Protecting speaker's face in impolite exchanges: The negotiation of face-wants in workplace interaction. Journal of Politeness Research 4 (1).

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

face maintenance | politeness | workplace conversation

Language as a subject

French

Place, Publisher

De Gruyter

Journal WWW

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

Annotation

This paper argues that Brown and Levinson's politeness model can account for both polite and impolite exchanges. The example used refers to the negotiation of face in a French workplace setting.