Off-Record Indirectness and the Notion of Imposition

Intercultural Discourse and Communication: The Essential Readings

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 217-225

  Sifianou, Maria ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Ethnomethodological literature; Interpersonal relationship; Multifunctional linguistic phenomenon; Off record indirectness; Social obligation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84949033838     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470758434.ch14     Document Type: Chapter

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