Indirectness and politeness in requests: Same or different?

1987/04/01 by Shoshana Blum-Kulka, Shoshana Blum‐Kulka · 11 citations
Arts and Humanities · Psychology · Social Sciences · #Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies #Language, Metaphor, and Cognition #Swearing, Euphemism, Multilingualism

paper · doi:10.1016/0378-2166(87)90192-5

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