Politeness : applications in translation studies

The research on “politeness” as a socio-linguistic phenomenon can be utilized beyond linguistic boundaries to investigate translation solutions for “impolite” English and Arabic texts. Throughout this study, politeness is not used in its moral sense, but rather in the light of Brown and Levinson’s (...

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Main Author: Abudib, Wafa
Published: University of Edinburgh 2004
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Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.640140