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Publication details [#50216]
Sifianou, Maria. 1995. Do we need to be silent to be extremely polite? Silence and FTAs. International Journal of Applied Linguistics 5 (1) : 95–110. 
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
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Place, Publisher
Blackwell Publishers
Journal WWW
Annotation
This paper examines the nature of Brown and Levinson's (1987) FTA superstrategy -i.e. don't do the face-threatening act (FTA), remain silent- and the degree to which silence can execute the other main strategies for handling FTAs.