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 GruyterThis paper examines Greek learners' deviations in the dimensions of internal and external modification...
Keywords: interlanguage, requests, Greek, power, modification, mitigation
01/2008 | Journal of Politeness Research. Language, Behaviour, Culture, Walter de Gruyter