This article examines how participants do impoliteness in children's peer interaction in a second grade, Spanish/English bilingual community of practice in an elementary school in the Southwestern United States...
Keywords: Impoliteness, conversation, Mexican-American, bilingual, Spanish, politeness, rapport-management
07/2006 | Journal of Politeness Research. Language, Behaviour, Culture, Walter de GruyterThis paper considers the cultural values manifested in the use of the diminutive suffix
Keywords: cultural scripts, diminutive, Spanish, ethnopragmatics, speech acts, mitigation
11/2004 | Intercultural Pragmatics, Walter de Gruyter