Indirectness

The Handbook of Intercultural Discourse and Communication

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 180-204

  Lempert, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

"cultural" differences in indirectness; "Indirectness" euphemism, circumlocution, metaphor; Field of pragmatics, and indirect performativity; Indirect performativity, as "politeness" in face to face interaction; Indirectness as an underlying "property" of discourse; Indirectness, persisting as a social fact; Levinson's ISAs and "problem," "idiom" and "inference"; Speech act theory, and "indirectness"

Indexed keywords

EID: 84863597897     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781118247273.ch10     Document Type: Chapter

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