Im/Politeness Implicatures (Mouton Series in Pragmatics [MSP])

by Michael Haugh (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2014

  $177.91

  This volume brings together two highly researched but also highly controversial concepts, those of politeness and implicature. A theory of implicature as social action and im/politeness as social practice is developed that opens up new ways of examining the relationship between them. It constitutes a fresh look at the issues involved that redresses the current imbalance between social and pragmatic accounts of im/politeness.