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Publication details [#32089]

Upadhyay, Shiv R. 2003. Nepali requestive acts: Linguistic indirectness and politeness reconsidered. Journal of Pragmatics 35 (10-11) : 1651–1677.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

indirectness | politeness | request

Language as a subject

Nepali

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

ISBN

0378-2166

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

This article re-examines the link between linguistic indirectness and politeness by analyzing requestive acts from spontaneous Nepali discourse. It is concluded that politeness is not necessarily a function of linguistic indirectness.