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Publication details [#56301]
Sifianou, Maria. 2012. Disagreements, face and politeness. Journal of Pragmatics 44 (12) : 1554–1564.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
Place, Publisher
Elsevier
Journal WWW
Annotation
This study presents disagreements as intricate, multidirectional and multifunctional acts, which forestall plain tagging such as face-threatening/increasing, (dis)preferred or (im)polite acts, as they need not unavoidably engender conflict and impoliteness, but can signal intimacy and sociability, thus rather consolidating interlocutors’ relationships.