Publications

Publication details [#11834]

Sifianou, Maria. 1997. Politeness and Off-Record Indirectness. International Journal of the Sociology of Language 126 : 163–179. 16 pp.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

conversational maxim | indirectness | politeness

Language as a subject

Greek, Modern

Person as a subject

Brown, P. | Grice, P.H. | Levinson, S.

Place, Publisher

Walter de Gruyter

ISBN

0165-2516

Journal WWW

www.degruyter.com/journal/key/IJSL/html

Annotation

It is observed that Greek off-record indirectness structures preserve face or minimize imposition. Analysis of these structures using conversational maxims indicate that off-record indirectness expresses both positive as negative politeness