Politeness : some universals in language usage - Brown, Penelope; Levinson, Stephen C. (Cambridge [Cambridgeshire] : Cambridge University Press, 1987)
'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.
Keywords: Sociolinguistics; Etiquette; Conversation; Pragmatics; Speech acts (Linguistics).; Social interaction; Language and languages -- Usage