This readable book presents a new general theoretical understanding of politeness. It offers
an account of a wide range of politeness phenomena in English, illustrated by hundreds of …

How do we interpret language and expose its meanings? How does pragmatics describe
the English language? Where can we go to acquire a deeper understanding of pragmatics …

Exploring Intercultural Communication investigates the role of language in intercultural
communication, paying particular attention to the interplay between cultural diversity and …

Yan Huang's highly successful textbook on pragmatics-the study of language in use-has
been fully revised and updated in this second edition. It includes a brand new chapter on …

Preschoolers' theory-of-mind development follows a similar age trajectory across many
cultures. To determine whether these similarities are related to similar underlying …

This is the first English-language book to focus on the electric rice cooker and the impact it
has had on the lives of Asian people. This account of the rice cooker's globalization aims to …

Abstract Brown and Levinson (1987 [1978]) has remained the most seminal and influential
starting point for studying cross-cultural and interlinguistic politeness. Yet it has also …

Mukbang is a Korean livestream where a host eats while interacting with viewers. The eater
'speaks' to the viewers while eating and the viewers 'type'to each other and to the eater …

[ A left bracket indicates the point at which a current speaker's utterance is overlapped by the
talk of another, which appears on the next line attributed to another speaker. If there is more …

Much of the research and literature in the area of Organisational Communication takes a
broad approach to language: communication is viewed from an organisational rather than …