Politeness Across Cultures

1. Introduction: Politeness Research In and Across Cultures
Dániel Z. Kádár, Francesca Bargiela-Chiappini

Part I. Face in Interaction

2. Some Issues with the Concept of Face: When, What, How and How Much?
Jim O’Driscoll

3. On the Concept of Face and Politeness
Maria Sifianou

Part II. Im/politeness in Intracultural Interaction

4. Im/politeness, Rapport Management and Workplace Culture: Truckers Performing Masculinities on Canadian Ice-Roads
Louise Mullany

5. Why Are Israeli Children Better at Settling Disputes Than Israeli Politicians?
Zohar Kampf, Shoshana Blum-Kulka

6. Korean Honorifics and ‘Revealed’, ‘Ignored’ and ‘Suppressed’ Aspects of Korean Culture and Politeness
Lucien Brown

7. Modern Chinese Politeness Revisited
Yueguo Gu

8. Modes of Address Between Female Staff in Georgian Professional Discourse: Medical and Academic Contexts
Manana Rusieshvili

Part III. Im/politeness and Face: Intercultural and Crosscultural Perspectives

9. Indirectness in Zimbabwean English: A Study of Intercultural Communication in the UK
Karen Grainger

10. On Im/politeness Behind the Iron Curtain
Eva Ogiermann, Małgorzata Suszczyńska

11. Conflict, Culture and Face
Yasuhisa Watanabe

12. Cultural Variability in Face Interpretation and Management
Ewa Bogdanowska-Jakubowska

13. Epilogue
Sandra Harris

Keywords: Linguistics, Sociolinguistics, Semantics