Face Threatening Acts, Primary Face Threatening Acts, and the Management of Discourse: Australian English and Speakers of Asian Englishes

Contemporary theories of linguistic politeness tend to be grounded in the pivotal concept of face threatening acts as formulated by Brown and Levinson. As a result, relatively scant attention has been paid to the ways in which politeness can also be a function of shared understandings concerning the...

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Main Author: Conlan, Chris
Format: Book Chapter
Published: John Benjamins 2004
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/26698