Many cross-linguistic studies have argued for a positive correlation between politeness and linguistic indirectness...
Keywords: Honorifics, linguistic indirectness, requests, socio-cultural constraints, speech acts, Korean
07/2006 | Journal of Politeness Research. Language, Behaviour, Culture, Walter de GruyterBrown and Levinson (1987 [1978]) has remained the most seminal and influential starting point for studying cross-cultural and interlinguistic politeness...
Keywords: politeness, pragmalinguistics, socio-pragmatics, face, Chinese, Japanese, Korean
07/2007 | Journal of Politeness Research. Language, Behaviour, Culture, Walter de GruyterEvaluating Trudgill's correlation of phoneme inventory size with social factors, this paper highlights the role of phonological structure in the acquisition of phonological contrast, with particular reference to Turkic and Korean vowel inventories...
Keywords: acquisition, areal linguistics, Korean, language contact, phoneme inventories, Turkic, vowel quantity
10/2004 | Linguistic Typology, Walter de Gruyter