by Michael Haugh (Author)
This volume brings together two highly researched but also highly controversial concepts, those of politeness and implicature. A theory of implicature as social action and im/politeness as social practice is developed that opens up new ways of examining the relationship between them. It constitutes a fresh look at the issues involved that redresses the current imbalance between social and pragmatic accounts of im/politeness.
Author Biography
Michael Haugh, Griffith University, Australia.
Number of Pages: 369
Dimensions: 0.77 x 9.21 x 6.14 IN
Publication Date: June 20, 2016