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Politeness plays a vital role in maintaining class differences. In this highly original account, Sara Mills analyses the interrelationship between class and linguistic interaction, uncovering the linguistic ideologies behind politeness in British English. She sheds light on the way politeness and rudeness interrelate with the marking of class boundaries, and reveals how middle-class positions in society are marked by people's use of self-deprecation, indirectness and reserve. Systematically chal
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- SARA MILLS
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press (Virtual Publishing)
- Published
- 2017
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781316336922
- Category
- language
- Subjects
- Linguistics, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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