Illustrated by data drawn from many linguacultures, this book provides a strictly language-based ...

Illustrated by data drawn from many linguacultures, this book provides a strictly language-based ...

Cross-Cultural Pragmatics

This handbook comprehensively examines social interaction by providing a critical overview of the...

This book models how people use ritual practices in interaction, and politeness and impoliteness ...

This groundbreaking exploration navigates the reader through the fascinating area of politeness.

The aim of this volume is to fill a long-recognised gap in communication, discourse and culture s...

This edited collection investigates historical linguistic politeness and impoliteness. Although s...

Examines politeness and impoliteness in a range of East Asian languages, including Japanese, Kore...

Politeness, Impoliteness and Ritual

Cross-Cultural Pragmatics

By taking an interdisciplinary approach, this book explores the process of managing relations acr...