Cross-Cultural Pragmatics : The Semantics of Human Interaction /

This book, which can be seen as both a research monograph and a text book, challenges the approaches to human interaction based on supposedly universal "maxims of conversation" and "principles of politeness", which fly in the face of reality as experienced by millions of people -...

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Main Author: Wierzbicka, Anna (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
Corporate Author: De Gruyter
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter Mouton, [2009]
Edition:2nd ed. [with a new preface] 2003
Series:Mouton Textbook
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