The Pragmatics of Politeness

By G. Leech. 2014

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Subfields: Language and Linguistics

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Citations in the corpus

• The bases of (im)politeness evaluations : culture, the moral order and the East–West debate (2015, background): “Mao (1994), in a similar vein to Gu, criticised the problematic nature of the concept of ‘face’ in B & L’s framework, by exploring the metapragmatic complexity of this notion in Chinese culture.”
• Conventionalization: A new agenda for im/politeness research (2015, background): “…do not incorporate into their models a notion of im/politeness as a Generalized tional Implicature (GCI), although they do mention it (B&L:6--7, Leech, 2014:73--4), and as such continue to see the important distinction between direct vs. indirect and the weight of im/politeness as carried by…”