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Geoffrey Leech

The Pragmatics of Politeness

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This readable book presents a new general theoretical understanding of politeness. It offers an account of a wide range of politeness phenomena in English, illustrated by hundreds of examples of actual language use taken largely from authentic British and American sources. Building on his earlier pioneering work on politeness, Geoffrey Leech takes a pragmatic approach that is based on the controversial notion that politeness is communicative altruism. Leech's 1983 book, Principles of Pragmatics, introduced the now widely-accepted distinction between pragmalinguistic and sociopragmatic aspects of politeness; this book returns to the pragmaling… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-0-19-971224-3
  • EAN: 9780199712243
  • Produktnummer: 16995372
  • Verlag: Oxford University Press
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
  • Plattform: PDF
  • Masse: 28'947 KB

Über den Autor


Geoffrey Leech is Emeritus Professor of English Linguistics at Lancaster University, where he has been a faculty member for over 40 years. He has published many books and articles in the fields of English grammar, stylistics, pragmatics, semantics, and corpus linguistics. He was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 1987.

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