Directness and Indirectness Across Cultures
Sara Mills author Karen Grainger author
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Palgrave Macmillan
Published:19th Oct '15
Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back
This book analyses the complex relationship between directness, indirectness, politeness and impoliteness. Definitions of directness and indirectness are discussed and problematised from a discursive theoretical perspective.
“This book provides a deeper analysis of the existence of ‘variability within cultures’ … . It adds both to the understanding of politeness and its relationship with directness and indirectness, such that each ‘linguistic community decides what they see as sophisticated’ and which politeness strategies they interpret as polite or impolite … .” (Silvia Pisabarro Sarrió, Language in Society, Vol. 46 (4), September, 2017)
ISBN: 9781137340382
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: 3403g
177 pages
1st ed. 2016