The case of requests and suggestions: Directness as a source of misunderstanding

Kallia, Alexandra

doi:10.1075/pbns.139.19kal

In:Broadening the Horizon of Linguistic Politeness
Edited by Robin T. Lakoff and Sachiko Ide
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series 139] 2005
► pp. 217–234

Get fulltext from our e-platform

Download Book PDF

Directness as a source of misunderstanding

The case of requests and suggestions

Alexandra Kallia

Published online: 27 October 2005

https://doi.org/10.1075/pbns.139.19kal

Cited by (6)

Cited by six other publications

Order by:

Degenhardt, Julia

2023. Requests in Indian and Sri Lankan English. World Englishes 42:3 ► pp. 523 ff.

Song, Beibei

2023. Study of High-Proficiency Chinese EFL Learners’ Strategy Applications in Constructive Feedback. Chinese Journal of Applied Linguistics 46:1 ► pp. 71 ff.

Bella, Spyridoula

2022. Length of residence and intensity of interaction. Pragmatics. Quarterly Publication of the International Pragmatics Association (IPrA) ► pp. 1 ff.

Kádár, Dániel Z., Juliane House, Fengguang Liu & Yulong Song

2021. Admonishing. Pragmatics. Quarterly Publication of the International Pragmatics Association (IPrA) 31:2 ► pp. 173 ff.

Abrams, Zsuzsanna I.

2020. Intercultural Communication and Language Pedagogy,

Jucks, Regina, Lena Päuler & Benjamin Brummernhenrich

2016. “I Need to Be Explicit: You're Wrong”: Impact of Face Threats on Social Evaluations in Online Instructional Communication. Interacting with Computers 28:1 ► pp. 73 ff.

This list is based on CrossRef data as of 28 november 2025. Please note that it may not be complete. Sources presented here have been supplied by the respective publishers. Any errors therein should be reported to them.