Personal reference and politeness strategies in French and Spanish : a corpus-based approach

The aim of this thesis is to examine personal pronominal reference in two lang1;5ges, French and Spanish, from an interactional perspective. Brown and Levinson's (1978, 1987) 'Politeness theory' seeks to provide an explanation for much of the mismatch between what is 'said'...

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Main Author: Stewart, Miranda Mary
Published: Heriot-Watt University 1992
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Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.305333