Linguistics & Language · Semantics & Pragmatics
A topic within Semantics & Pragmatics, itself one of 9 topics in that field and part of Linguistics & Language.
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Robin Lakoff
Argues that politeness follows its own rules of pragmatic competence, running alongside and sometimes overriding clarity, which is why an indirect sentence can be the more appropriate thing to say.
Penelope Brown & Stephen C. Levinson
The authors revisit their own claim that politeness strategies across unrelated languages are predictable from a shared model of face — a speaker's and hearer's want to be respected and not imposed upon — against a decade of criticism and cross-cultural testing.