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Linguistic politeness in Britain and Uruguay : a contrastive study of requests and apologies / Rosina Márquez-Reiter.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Pragmatics & beyond ; new ser. 83.Publication details: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 2000.Description: 1 online resource (xvii, 225 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 0585462542
  • 9780585462547
  • 9781588110152
  • 158811015X
  • 9789027251022
  • 9027251029
  • 9789027298935
  • 9027298939
  • 1282254723
  • 9781282254725
  • 9786612254727
  • 6612254726
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Linguistic politeness in Britain and Uruguay.DDC classification:
  • 306.44/0941 22
LOC classification:
  • PE1074.75 .M37 2000eb
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Contents:
LINGUISTIC POLITENESS IN BRITAIN AND URUGUAY; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Chapter 1. Politeness theory; Chapter 2. Speech act theory and politeness: Requests and apologies; Chapter 3. Structure of the study and methodology; Chapter 4. The findings: Requests; Chapter 5. The findings: Apologies; Chapter 6. Conclusion; Appendix; References; Subject index; PRAGMATICS AND BEYOND NEW SERIES.
Summary: The first well-researched contrastive pragmatic analysis of requests and apologies in British English and Uruguayan Spanish. It takes the form of a cross-cultural corpus-based analysis using male and female native speakers of each language and systematically alternating the same social variables in both cultures. The data are elicited from a non-prescriptive open role-play yielding requests and apologies. The analysis of the speech acts is based on an adaptation of the categorical scheme developed by Blum-Kulka et al. (1989). The results show that speakers of English and Spanish differ in their.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-222) and index.

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LINGUISTIC POLITENESS IN BRITAIN AND URUGUAY; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Chapter 1. Politeness theory; Chapter 2. Speech act theory and politeness: Requests and apologies; Chapter 3. Structure of the study and methodology; Chapter 4. The findings: Requests; Chapter 5. The findings: Apologies; Chapter 6. Conclusion; Appendix; References; Subject index; PRAGMATICS AND BEYOND NEW SERIES.

The first well-researched contrastive pragmatic analysis of requests and apologies in British English and Uruguayan Spanish. It takes the form of a cross-cultural corpus-based analysis using male and female native speakers of each language and systematically alternating the same social variables in both cultures. The data are elicited from a non-prescriptive open role-play yielding requests and apologies. The analysis of the speech acts is based on an adaptation of the categorical scheme developed by Blum-Kulka et al. (1989). The results show that speakers of English and Spanish differ in their.

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