Politeness: a relevant issue for relevance theory
The aim of this paper is to offer some guidelines for an explanation of politeness in the framework of Relevance Theory. I will suggest that the notion of social adequacy is to be preferred to that of strategy; as a primitive for politeness theory, and try to show how such a notion can be...
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Universidad de Alicante
1998-11-01
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| Series: | Revista Alicantina de Estudios Ingleses |
| Online Access: | https://raei.ua.es/article/view/1998-n11-politeness-a-relevant-issue-for-relevance-theory |