Items for "linguistic politeness"

Cross-cultural linguistic realization of politeness: A study of apologies in English and Setswana

The article reports on a contrastive study of apologies in native and “nativized” varieties of English and the South African variety of Setswana...

Keywords: apologies, linguistic politeness, cross-cultural pragmatics, Setswana politeness, speech act research, contrastive pragmatics