Sara Mills, Karen Grainger

Directness and Indirectness Across Cultures

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book analyses the complex relationship between directness, indirectness, politeness and impoliteness. Definitions of directness and indirectness are discussed and problematised from a discursive theoretical perspective.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Macmillan Education / Palgrave Macmillan UK / Springer Palgrave Macmillan
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-1-137-34038-2
• 1st ed. 2016
• Seitenzahl: 177
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Oktober 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 331g
• ISBN-13: 9781137340382
• ISBN-10: 113734038X
• Artikelnr.: 42955799

Autorenporträt

Karen Grainger and Sara Mills

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: Language, Culture, (Im)politeness and (In)directness 2.
Theoretical Perspectives on Indirectness 3. Theoretical Perspectives on
Directness 4. Zimbabwean and British English: A Case Study of Directness
and Indirectness across Cultures 5. Situated Directness and Indirectness:
Monolingual English Speakers 6. Linguistic Ideologies: Bilingual Speakers'
Evaluations of Indirectness and Directness 7. Conclusions

Rezensionen

"This book provides a deeper analysis of the existence of 'variability within cultures' ... . It adds both to the understanding of politeness and its relationship with directness and indirectness, such that each 'linguistic community decides what they see as sophisticated' and which politeness strategies they interpret as polite or impolite ... ." (Silvia Pisabarro Sarrió, Language in Society, Vol. 46 (4), September, 2017)