@article{752343,
      author = {Grainger, Karen, and Mills, Sara,},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/752343},
      title = {Directness and indirectness across cultures [electronic  resource] /},
      abstract = {"Directness may often be considered rude in English, but  in other languages it signals closeness and honesty.  Equally, indirectness can be judged to be polite in  English, whereas in other languages it can be regarded as  cold and distancing. This book analyses why this is and  provides the reader with a set of tools to investigate  directness and indirectness in interaction. The authors  examine the way that these differences in evaluation may  lead to misunderstanding in conversations, focussing on the  difficulty in clearly defining and isolating directness and  indirectness. Situated within a discursive theoretical  perspective, the book shows, through the analysis of role  plays, naturally occurring data and interviews, how it is  possible to analyse interactants' evaluations and  assessments of directness and indirectness"--},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137340399},
      recid = {752343},
      pages = {1 online resource.},
}