Politeness is crucial to successful communication and is consequently of interest to those who study language in its social context. This work presents an appli

This is the first edited collection to examine politeness in a wide range of diverse cultures. Most essays draw on empirical data from a wide variety of languag

This book studies the principles for constructing polite speeches, based on the detailed study of three unrelated languages and cultures.

This book investigates how speakers of English, Polish and Russian deal with offensive situations. It reveals culture-specific perceptions of what counts as an