The aim of this volume is to ¿ll a long-recognised gap in communication, discourse and culture st...

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

Pan and Kadar's exciting research compares historical and contemporary Chinese (im)polite communi...

Dániel Z. Kádár was awarded with the Academy Award for Young Outstanding Scholars bythe Hungarian...

Politeness is key to all of our relationships and plays a fundamental part in the way we communic...

Ritual is popularly associated with ceremonies, though in real life it plays a significantly more...

This book provides a cutting-edge introduction to cross-cultural pragmatics, a field encompassing...

The research and teaching of language and politics has mainly been carried out in the fields of c...

Politeness is key to all of our relationships and plays a fundamental part in the way we communic...

Focussing on Qing Dynasty (1644-1911) letter writing, this compendium is an outstanding study of ...

We use politeness every day when interacting with other people. Yet politeness is an impressively...

Kadar and Pan's exciting researchcompares traditional and contemporary Chinese polite communicati...