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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
Place, Publisher
Elsevier

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.