Indirect speech acts are generally associated with greater politeness in English than direct speech acts .In order to understand why,we have to look at a bigger picture than just a single utterance performing
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1 Definitions and background Syntax,semantics,and pragmatics Regularity the pragmatics wastebasket2 Deixis and distance Person deixis Spatial deixis Temporal deixis Deixis and grammar3 Reference and inference Referential and attributive uses Names and referents The role of co-text Anaphoric reference4 Presupposition and entailment Presupposition Types of presupposition The projeciton problem Ordered entailments5 Cooperation and implicature