94 Pages
7 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
94 Pages
7 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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This book explores the pragmatic concept of interactional explanation (IE) in linguistic (im)politeness research.
This volume establishes a working understanding of IE, understood as the response to a perceived appeal for information in an interaction. This book considers how IE is pragmatically sought, given, interpreted, and evaluated in interactions, processes which give rise to linguistic... Read more
1. Introduction, 2. Theoretical foundations, 3. Cross-cultural study of interactional explanation and politeness, 4. Interactional explanation and politeness in intercultural settings, 5. Summary and prospects for future research, References, Index
Biography
Puyu Ning is a research fellow at the ELTE Research Centre for Linguistics, formerly an institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, in Budapest, Hungary.
