Publications
Publication details [#51364]
Bella, Spyridoula. 2009. Invitations and politeness in Greek: The age variable. Journal of Politeness Research 5 (2) : 243–271.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
Language as a subject
Place, Publisher
De Gruyter
Journal WWW
Annotation
This study explores age as a determining factor for the Greek speech events of invitations and invitation refusals and for the preferred positive/negative politeness strategies for their realization. Younger and older age groups conceptualize invitations differently as respectively addressee face-enhancing and face-threatening acts, so the younger group insists more and prefers positive politeness strategies.