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Boxer, Diana. 1993. Social distance and speech behaviour: The case of indirect complaints. Journal of Pragmatics 19 (2) : 103–125.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Person as a subject
Place, Publisher
Elsevier
ISBN
0378-2166

Annotation

This paper rejects Wolfson's 'Bulge' theory of social distance, demonstrating that some rapport-inspiring speech behaviors, as e.g. indirect complaining/commiserating, are almost as often met with among strangers as they do among friends.