Politeness Across Cultures

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 languages, including some key-languages in politeness research, such as English, and Japanese, as well as some lesser-studied languages, such as Georgian.

SHOSHANA BLUM-KULKA Professor Emerita in the Department of Communication and School of Education at the Hebrew University, Israel EWA BOGDANOWSKA-JAKUBOWSKA Assistant Professor in the Institute of English at the University of Silesia in Katowice, Poland LUCIEN BROWN is a research fellow in the Centre of Korean Studies at the School of Oriental and African Studies, London, UK CHRISTINE CHRISTIE Lecturer in English at Loughborough University, UK KAREN GRAINGER currently senior lecturer in communication at Sheffield Hallam University, UK GU, YUEGUO Research Professor, and the Head of the Contemporary Linguistics Department at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, People's Republic of China SANDRA HARRIS Professor Emeritus at Nottingham Trent University, UK DR. ZOHAR KAMPF Lecturer at the department of Communication and Journalism at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel LOUISE MULLANY Associate Professor of Sociolinguistics in the School of English Studies, University of Nottingham, UK EVA OGIERMANN Lecturer in intercultural communication at the University of Surrey, UK MANANA RUSIESHVILI Full Professor and Head of the English Department and coordinator of Western Philology at Tbilisi State University and President of English Teachers' Association of Georgia MARIA SIFIANOU Professor at the University of Athens, Greece MALGORZATA SUSZCZY?SKA teaches sociopragmatics and conversational analysis at the University of Szeged, Hungary YASUHISA WATANABE Lecturer in Japanese at University of Melbourne, Australia