Linguistic politeness in Britain and Uruguay : a contrastive study of requests and apologies

Linguistic politeness in Britain and Uruguay : a contrastive study of requests and apologies /

The first well-researched contrastive pragmatic analysis of requests and apologies in British English and Uruguayan Spanish. It takes the form of a cross-cultural corpus-based analysis using male and female native speakers of each language and systematically alternating the same social variables in...

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Main Author: Márquez-Reiter, Rosina
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 2000.
Series:Pragmatics & beyond ; new ser. 83.
Subjects:
English language > Social aspects > Great Britain.
English language > Grammar, Comparative > Spanish.
Spanish language > Grammar, Comparative > English.
Spanish language > Social aspects > Uruguay.
Language and culture > Great Britain.
Social interaction > Great Britain.
Language and culture > Uruguay.
Social interaction > Uruguay.
Speech acts (Linguistics)
Apologizing.
Courtesy.
Excuses.
Great Britain > Social life and customs.
Uruguay > Social life and customs.
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