TY - BOOK ID - 46966470 TI - Directness and Indirectness Across Cultures AU - Mills, Sara. AU - Grainger, Karen. PY - 2016 SN - 9781137340399 1349558710 113734038X 1137340398 PB - London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, DB - UniCat KW - Mass communications KW - Pragmatics KW - Sociolinguistics KW - Linguistics KW - communicatie KW - tekstanalyse KW - communicatiewetenschappen KW - linguïstiek KW - pragmatisme KW - sociolinguïstiek KW - Discourse analysis. KW - Sociolinguistics. KW - Pragmatics. KW - Discourse Analysis. KW - Communication Studies. KW - Pragmalinguistics KW - General semantics KW - Language and languages KW - Logic, Symbolic and mathematical KW - Semantics (Philosophy) KW - Language and society KW - Society and language KW - Sociology of language KW - Language and culture KW - Sociology KW - Integrational linguistics (Oxford school) KW - Discourse grammar KW - Text grammar KW - Semantics KW - Semiotics KW - Philosophy KW - Social aspects KW - Sociological aspects KW - Communication. KW - Communication, Primitive KW - Mass communication UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:46966470 AB - This book analyses the complex relationship between directness, indirectness, politeness and impoliteness. Definitions of directness and indirectness are discussed and problematised from a discursive theoretical perspective. ER -