| Author/Contributor(s): | Haugh, Michael |
| Publisher: | Walter de Gruyter |
| Date: | 11/17/2014 |
| Binding: | Hardcover |
| Condition: | NEW |
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.