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Publication details [#61335]

Izadi, Ahmad. 2016. Over-politeness in Persian professional interactions. Journal of Pragmatics 102 : 13–23.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Language as a subject
Place, Publisher
Elsevier

Annotation

Using Conversation Analysis and im/politeness as social practice theory, this study explores how interactants in two types of Persian academic professional discourse attain over-politeness by rendering over-polite evaluations to social practices usually subject to polite evaluations.