“Will you fuck off please”. The use of please by London teenagers
The paper investigates how the politeness marker please is used by young people to distinguish themselves from adults and create an identity of their own. The analysis of please is based on the Bergen Corpus of London Teenage Language (COLT). The distribution and uses of please in COLT are compared...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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De Gruyter
2015-11-01
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| Series: | Pragmática Sociocultural |
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1515/soprag-2014-0028 |