Cross-Cultural Pragmatics by Anna Wierzbicka

Cross-Cultural Pragmatics

Anna Wierzbicka

539 pages first pub 1991 (editions)

nonfiction challenging informative medium-paced
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This book, which can be seen as both a research monograph and a text book, challenges the approaches to human interaction based on supposedly universal "maxims of conversation" and "principles of politeness", which fly in the face of reality as ex...

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