Evaluation of politeness: Do the Japanese evaluate attentiveness more positively than the British?

Pragmatics

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 501-518

  Fukushima, Saeko ^a  

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Author keywords

Attentiveness; British; Evaluation; Japanese; Politeness

Indexed keywords

EID: 78650733792     PISSN: 10182101     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1075/prag.19.4.01fuk     Document Type: Article

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