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Robin Lakoff and Sachiko Ide (eds.), Broadening the horizon of linguistic politeness

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 October 2007

Sara Mills
Sara Mills
Affiliation:
Linguistics, Sheffield Hallam University, Sheffield S10 2BP, UK, s.l.mills@shu.ac.uk
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Robin Lakoff and Sachiko Ide (eds.), Broadening the horizon of linguistic politeness. Amsterdam & Philadelphia :John Benjamins, 2005. Pp. 342. Hb $144.

The essays in this collection were first presented at a conference held in Bangkok in 1999. The strength of the essays as a whole is that they concentrate on analyzing politeness in a range of different languages: Chinese, Japanese, Thai, Greek, Australian English, Spanish, Irish, and Swedish.

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Language in Society , Volume 36 , Issue 5 , November 2007 , pp. 793 - 795
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© 2007 Cambridge University Press

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