Brown, Penelope.

Politeness : some universals in language usage / Penelope Brown and Stephen C. Levinson. - Cambridge [Cambridgeshire] : Cambridge University Press, 1987. - xiv, 345 p. ; 23 cm. - Studies in interactional sociolinguistics ; 4 .

'The bulk of the material in this volume first appeared in a collection in the series Cambridge papers in social anthropology, volume 8'--Foreword. Includes indexes.

Bibliography: p. 301-327.

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Sociolinguistics.
Etiquette.
Conversation.
Pragmatics.
Speech acts (Linguistics).
Social interaction.
Language and languages--Usage.