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

This study analyses courtroom communicative practices in the trials of an Italian criminal organisation.

This collection brings together several perspectives on language varieties defined according to their contexts of use--what are variously called registers, sublanguages, or genres.

This collection takes a linguistic approach to exploring theories about gender representation within the sphere of education and textbooks, and their effects on readers and students within an international context.

Our understanding of how discourse works--whether it is spontaneously uttered by conversationalists or carefully structured by the novelist or public speaker--is significantly advanced by this book.

Explores the history and development of Pittsburghese as a cultural product of talk, writing, and other forms of social practice.

This volume examines issues of language, identity, and culture among the rapidly growing Asian Pacific American (APA) population.

Publisher Description

Five classic studies of behaviour in face-to-face interaction, plus a specially-written chapter discussing the historical development of the theoretical framework of these studies.

This readable book presents a new general theoretical understanding of politeness.