"Topics covered include speech act theory and indirect speech acts, politeness and the interpersonal determinants of language, language and impression managemen

The chapters in this edited volume explore the sociolinguistic implications of orthographic and scriptural practices in a diverse range of communicative context

Provides a way of accounting for the relationship between language and a variety of social phenomena.

This work consists of an examination and revision of some of the main theses of Speech Act Theory in relation to the problem of ideology and action-guiding lang

This volume represents a unique contribution to the area of language attitudes research with its focus on how languages, dialects and accents induce us to form