Explaining cross-cultural pragmatic findings: Moving from politeness maxims to sociopragmatic interactional principles (SIPs)

Journal of Pragmatics

Volumn 35, Issue 10-11, 2003, Pages 1633-1650

  Spencer Oatey, Helen ^a   Jiang, Wenying ^a  

^a UK eUniversities Worldwide   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cross cultural studies; Directness indirectness; Face; Pragmatic maxims; Sociopragmatics and pragmalinguistcs

Indexed keywords

EID: 0042575715     PISSN: 03782166     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-2166(03)00025-0     Document Type: Article

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