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THE EPISTEMIC COSTS OF POLITENESS

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 April 2017

Sanford Goldberg  and
Guiming Yang
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Abstract

Politeness in conversation has epistemic costs, in that it saps conversational silence of its capacity to signal assent. Whether these costs are outweighed by the obvious social benefits of politeness is not a question we pursue here.

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Research Article
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Think , Volume 16 , Issue 46 , Summer 2017 , pp. 19 - 23
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Copyright © The Royal Institute of Philosophy 2017 

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