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“Can I have a cup of tea please?” Politeness markers in the Spoken BNC2014

Journal of Politeness Research. 2023. Vol. 19. No. 2. P. 297–322.
Islentyeva Anna, Pesendorfer L., Tolochin I.

The focus of this study is four frequently-used politeness markers: please, thank you, thanks, and sorry. The paper aims to precisely identify the different senses of these words in the newly released corpus of spoken British English, the Spoken British National Corpus 2014.

Research target: Philology and Linguistics Humanities
Language: English
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Keywords: politenessContemporary English
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