Perspectives on politeness

Interaction Ritual: Essays on Face-to-Face Behavior.

Edward A. Tiryakian, Erving Goffman · American Sociological Review · 1968 · 7.6K citations

Social Sciences, Anthropology, Sociology +15

A Comprehensive Grammar of the English Language

Randolph Quirk, Sidney Greenbaum, Geoffrey Leech et al. · College Composition and Communication · 1987 · 5.5K citations

Language Studies, English, Linguistics +11

Linguistic Communication and Speech Acts.

Warren Ingber, Kent Bach, Robert M. Harnish · The Philosophical Review · 1982 · 2.5K citations

Social Sciences, Communication, Linguistics +14

Universals in language usage: Politeness phenomena

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

Language Studies, Linguistics, Second Language Studies +14

Indirectness and politeness in requests: Same or different?

Shoshana Blum‐Kulka · Journal of Pragmatics · 1987 · 880 citations

Language Studies, Communication, Linguistics +10