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conventional indirectness: a standalone construct

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indirect forms, such as can you, that are conventionally used to make requests, which cross-cultural tests show are not always judged the most polite.

In pragmatics, conventional indirectness refers to indirect forms, such as can you, that are conventionally used to make requests, which cross-cultural tests show are not always judged the most polite. This meaning comes from Blum-Kulka (1987) in Journal of Pragmatics.[1]

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  1. Blum-Kulka, S. (1987). Indirectness and politeness in requests: Same or different? Journal of Pragmatics, 11(2), 131-146. https://doi.org/10.1016/0378-2166(87)90192-5

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