Speech acts and politeness across languages and cultures /
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| Imprint: | Bern ; New York : Peter Lang, c2012. |
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| Description: | 402 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Linguistic insights: studies in language and communication, 1424-8689 ; v. 132 Linguistic insights ; v. 132. |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8854482 |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Section 1. Speech Acts and Politeness in Some Languages and Cultures
- About Polish Politeness
- Thanking in Turkish: A Corpus-based Study
- Greek Student E-mail Requests to Faculty Members
- 'Generic you' in Basque: A Politeness Strategy in Young People Debates?
- Politeness and Facework in Chinese Language and Culture
- Section 2. Speech Acts and Politeness Across Languages and Cultures
- Implicit and Explicit Thanking in Spanish and German
- Learning-offers on the Internet in Spanish and French
- Cross-Cultural Analysis of the Use of Humor by Russian and American English Speakers
- Section 3. Speech Acts and Politeness in Second/Foreign Language Teaching and Learning
- Complimenting and Responding to a Compliment in the Spanish FL Classroom: From Empirical Evidence to Pedagogical Intervention
- The Effect of two Years Abroad on the Development of Apologies in the Japanese L2 of Adult English Native Speakers
- Are Women more Polite than Men? The Effect of Gender on the Use of Request Modifiers by Spanish EFL University Students
- Teaching Slovenian and Italian Communication Style
- Section 4. Methodological Resources in Pragmatics
- Statistics in Contrastive Pragmatics
- Notes on Contributors
