Publications

Publication details [#4943]

House, Juliane and Gabriele Kasper. 1981. Politeness markers in English and German. In Coulmas, Florian, ed. Conversational routine: Explorations in standardized communication situations and prepatterned speech. Mouton. pp. 157–185.

Publication type

Article in book

Publication language

English

Keywords

communicative style | conversational strategy | politeness | social norm

Language as a subject

English | German

Annotation

This paper attempts to reveal - on the basis of a corpus of parallel German and English interactions - how different norms concerning interlocutors' interpersonal communicative strategies result in differing distributions of the deference markers in the two speech communities.