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What Do Speech Acts Offer as Discursive Practices?

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Methodology in Politeness Research

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It follows from the previous chapter that the epistemological evolution of politeness studies in recent decades offers the researcher different theoretical frameworks and methodological perspectives, often derived from cognate disciplines: politeness is not simply linguistics, because of the fact that the use of language centres on people.

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Landone, E. (2022). What Do Speech Acts Offer as Discursive Practices?. In: Methodology in Politeness Research. Advances in (Im)politeness Studies. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-09161-2_2

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