Contrasting German-Greek politeness and the consequences

Opening up Closings

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Directions in Sociolinguistics: The Ethnography of Communication

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Pragmatics of Human Communication

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Sequencing in Conversational Openings¹

Emanuel A. Schegloff · American Anthropologist · 1968 · 2.4K citations

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Universals in language usage: Politeness phenomena

Penelope Brown, Stephen C. Levinson · Max Planck Digital Library · 1978 · 2.2K citations

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