Higher-order intentions and self-politeness in evaluations of (im)politeness: the relevance of compliment responses

Australian Journal of Linguistics

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 107-145

  Ruhi, Şükriye ^a  

^a MIDDLE EAST TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

(Im)politeness; Higher level Explicatures; Higher order Intentions; Intention Relevance; Self politeness; Turkish Compliment Responses

Indexed keywords

EID: 85050170030     PISSN: 07268602     EISSN: 14692996     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07268600701522756     Document Type: Article

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