Nepali requestive acts: Linguistic indirectness and politeness reconsidered

Journal of Pragmatics

Volumn 35, Issue 10-11, 2003, Pages 1651-1677

  Upadhyay, Shiv R ^a  

^a YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Linguistic indirectness; Nepali; Politeness; Requestive acts; Socio cultural meaning

Indexed keywords

EID: 0042575716     PISSN: 03782166     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-2166(03)00076-6     Document Type: Article

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