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Publication details [#58212]

Dragojevic, Marco and Mykaila Jenkins. 2013. Explaining the Process of Resistance to Persuasion: A Politeness Theory-Based Approach. Communication Research 40 (4) : 559–590.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

face maintenance | language use | persuading | politeness | threatening

Place, Publisher

SAGE Publications

Journal WWW

www.sagepub.co.uk/ejournals/

Annotation

Two performed experiments support a politeness theory based comprehension of resistance to persuasion, considering face threat of more forceful language messages and face threat of controlling language (given its unverified pretence of relative power).