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Bharuthram, Sharita. 2003. Politeness phenomena in the Hindu sector of the South African Indian English speaking community. Journal of Pragmatics 35 (10-11) : 1523–1544.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Language as a subject
Place, Publisher
Elsevier
ISBN
0378-2166

Annotation

This paper sets out to describe politeness within the Hindu sector of the South African Indian English speaking community by analyzing the speech acts of apologies and requests collected via interviews with cultural/religious leaders and with families, as well as via discourse completion tests.