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The role of linguistic indirectness and honorifics in achieving linguistic politeness in Korean requests
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 GruyterThe ethnopragmatics of the diminutive in conversational Colombian Spanish
This 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