This study investigates to what extent greetings on a social network site popular with South
Asians are associated with the degree of interpersonal closeness of the users, educated …

This study investigates how the politeness strategies of readers who comment on online
news articles influence the participation and politeness behaviors of subsequent readers …

This study examined linguistic politeness behaviors and their relationship to social distance
among members of a diasporic Bengali community on the social network site Orkut®. Using …

Managerial communication⁄ conversation in organizations is difficult to capture in its
complexities. Even if attempts are made, the outcome is rarely, if ever, natural and …

This paper is an empirical study of the use and variation of CMC acts (Searle, 1976; Herring,
Das & Panumarthy, 2005) and politeness behaviors (Brown & Levinson, 1987; Herring …

This research deals with communication in Endgame written by Samuel Beckett (1906-
1989). In this study conversational principles are applied to the dialogues of the play. The …