La fausse hiérarchisation entre information nouvelle et information ancienne à l’épreuve des modèles théoriques de la politesse

The aim of this article is to study how the ways in which new information is conveyed to a hearer can represent an act of impoliteness and how this face-theatening act or FTA (Brown & Levinson [1978, 1987]) can be softened by the use of hierarchizing structures, in particular appositive rela...

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Main Author: Rudy Loock
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Université Jean Moulin - Lyon 3 2010-09-01
Series:Lexis: Journal in English Lexicology
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Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/lexis/830