Politeness and Cebuano directives a linguistic and socio-cultural study

This study addresses the issue of universality of pragmatic theory specifically Brown and Levinson's politeness theory with "face" (derived from Goffman (1967)) as its central underlying concept; hence, their Face-saving view of linguistic politeness theory. Brown and Levinson claim t...

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Main Author: Mascuñana, Evelyn F.
Format: Thesis
Language:English
Published: 2007.
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