Publications

Publication details [#53453]

Demeure, Virginie. 2010. Facework and Utilitarian Relevance in the Disambiguation of Statements With Two Indirect Interpretations. Journal of Language and Social Psychology 29 (4) : 443–457.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

ambiguity | face maintenance | interpretation | request

Place, Publisher

SAGE Publications

Journal WWW

www.sagepub.co.uk/ejournals/

Annotation

This paper examines the interpretation of ambiguous (request/disagreement) statements through combined utilitarian and facework approaches.