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Publication details [#39912]

Eun, Jong Oh and Susan Strauss. 2004. The primacy of information status in the alternation between deferential and polite forms in Korean public discourse. Language Sciences 26 (3) : 251–272.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

deference | information processing | politeness | public speech

Language as a subject

Korean

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

This article points out that information status primarily motivates the choice between deferential and polite forms in Korean public speech.