This book provides a cutting-edge introduction to cross-cultural pragmatics, a field
encompassing the study of language use across linguacultures. Cross-Cultural Pragmatics …

This study investigates the use of greetings in Sweden-Swedish and Finland-Swedish
service encounters and the social meaning of different greeting forms. Situated within the …

In this paper we investigate how the second person pronominal T-form is translated in IKEA
catalogues in a number of different languages. IKEA is renowned for using the T-form as a …

In this article we compare advice-giving in academic supervision meetings at Swedish-
speaking university departments in Sweden and Finland. Working within the field of …

This article investigates how interpersonal relationships are expressed in medical
consultations. In particular, we focus on how modes of address are used in the two national …

While greetings are performed in all cultures and open most conversations, previous studies
suggest that there are cross-cultural differences between different languages in greeting …

Abstract On 02.06. 2020, the social media team of the Deutsche Bahn, the German railway
company, announced on Twitter that for a three-month launching phase, they would use the …

This book studies communication in institutional eldercare. It is based on audio-recorded
interactions between residents and staff in a Japanese care facility. The focus is on the …

This chapter reports a study of Swedish and Finnish insubordinate om and jos 'if'clauses
from a synchronic perspective as the clauses emerge in interactional sequences of action …

This article compares variation in the use of address practices across languages (Swedish,
Finnish) and national varieties (Sweden Swedish, Finland Swedish). It undertakes …