Directness and Indirectness Across Cultures

✍ Scribed by Karen Grainger, Sara Mills (auth.)

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Year: 2016
Tongue: English
Leaves: 187
Category: Library

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✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-ix
Introduction: Language, Culture, (Im)politeness and (In)directness....Pages 1-33
Theoretical Perspectives on Indirectness....Pages 34-50
Theoretical Perspectives on Directness....Pages 51-73
Zimbabwean English and British English: A Case Study of Directness and Indirectness Across Cultures....Pages 74-101
Situated Directness and Indirectness: Monolingual English Speakers....Pages 102-121
Linguistic Ideologies: Bilingual Speakers’ Evaluations of Indirectness and Directness....Pages 122-148
Conclusions....Pages 149-158
Back Matter....Pages 159-177

✦ Subjects

Sociolinguistics; Communication Studies; Pragmatics

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