When “Please” Becomes Unpleasant

The absolutist approach to politeness as pursued by Leech (1983) in his identification of politeness maxims, and Levinson and Brown (1987) in their discussions have been rejected by contextualists such as Gu (1990), Spencer-Oatey and Jiang (2003), Holmes (1995), Watts (2003), and Locher (2004). Fras...

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