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Publication details [#56663]

Mugford, Gerrard. 2012. I wouldn’t say that if I were you: Face-to-face with foreign-language impoliteness. Journal of Politeness Research 8 (2) : 195–221.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

face maintenance | foreign language acquisition | language use | perception3 | politeness

Place, Publisher

De Gruyter

Journal WWW

www.degruyter.com/journal/key/JPLR/html

Annotation

This paper explores how foreign language users consider, evaluate, react to and dispute face threats (FT) in the target language, and investigates the employed pragmalinguistic and sociopragmatic resources in responses to FT's.