This article addresses solidarity and the opening of social spaces in the relations between
refugees and residents of Greece who try to help them.'Socialities of solidarity'materialise …

Disagreement can be defined as the expression of a view that differs from that expressed by
another speaker. Yet, in the relevant literature, disagreement is mostly seen as …

This paper investigates the politeness strategies and mitigation devices used by native and
non-native speakers (advanced learners) of Greek when refusing an invitation from an …

That philanthropy perpetuates the conditions that cause inequality is an old argument
shared by thinkers such as Karl Marx, Oscar Wilde and Slavoj Žižek. I recorded variations of …

Globalisation tends to be perceived as one of the most powerful forces shaping today's
world. In its simplest sense, globalisation refers to the acceleration of processes of …

Communicating & Relating offers an account of how relating with one another emerges in
communicating in everyday interacting. Prior work has indicated that human relationships …

The writing of this book was spurred by both personal commitment and academic interest. In
the winter of 1996 a good friend and colleague, Costas Magos, 1 alerted me to the existence …

The Spanish language has no single term corresponding to 'politeness'. The range of
behaviour encompassed by the English term can be analysed into various concepts …

Face is a notion that is intuitively meaningful to many people but one that is highly complex
and hard to define. Broadly speaking, it can be seen as a positive social image akin to …

Based on approaches from discourse analysis and sociolinguistics, this study proposes an
analytical model focusing on the linguistic and discursive means narrators use to construct a …