Politeness and off-record indirectness

International Journal of the Sociology of Language

Volumn , Issue 126, 1997, Pages 163-179

  Sifianou, Maria ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

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EID: 0001990545     PISSN: 01652516     EISSN: 16133668     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/ijsl.1997.126.163     Document Type: Article

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