The widely cited frequency code hypothesis attempts to explain a diverse range of
communicative phenomena through the acoustic projection of body size. The set of …

This book aims to cast light on the somewhat neglected area of mock politeness. The
principle objectives are to bring together research into mock politeness which has been …

This chapter looks at how (Im) politeness is communicated through non-verbal means,
including prosody and gesture. Brown and Prieto show that multiple acoustic features …

This study investigates the nonverbal behaviors used in two interconnected relational
practices in Korean:“doing deference” towards status superiors and “performing intimacy” …

In spoken discourse, understanding irony requires the apprehension of subtle cues, such as
the speaker's tone of voice (prosody), which often reveal the speaker's affective stance …

Affect has been found to play important role in word and sentence processing. What is less
understood is the role it plays in the process by which interlocutors arrive at what speakers …

This chapter reviews the current state of the art regarding the contribution of prosody to
pragmatic interpretation, with a focus on different varieties of Spanish. We review recent …

This article revisits the question of why Korean speakers switch between two different
speech styles (“polite”–yo and “deferential”–supnita) in public speech. Although two recent …

In traditional politeness theories, disagreements are face threatening acts, regarded as
dispreferred options from a conversation analysis approach. However, in the classroom …

Although linguistic politeness has been studied and theorized about extensively, the role of
prosody in the perception of (im) polite attitudes has been somewhat neglected. In the …