This book examines how Russian-speaking adoptees in three US families actively shape
opportunities for language learning and identity construction in everyday interactions. It …

The overall aim of this paper is to investigate impoliteness in a particular on-line polylogal
setting–YouTube postings (c. 13,000 words) triggered by the 'Obama Reggaeton'video …

This paper aims to cast light on the somewhat neglected area of mock politeness. The
principle objectives are to describe the ways that mock politeness is talked about and …

Disagreement is an important socio-pragmatic skill for the workplace context, and
newcomers risk causing offence if they fail to adhere to community norms. Applying a …

Social media play a key role in presentation of the self and management of social
relationships. Although self-presentation online has been seen to exhibit a positivity bias …

Codeswitching is language mixing; it occurs intrasententially, or within sentences, and
intersentientially, or between sentences. It has been studied in a wide range of language …

The collection of papers included in this special issue seeks to contribute to the burgeoning
field of impoliteness research, and to do so in a fashion that helps avoid replicating some of …

This study investigates the interwoven relationship between the metadiscourse of (im)
politeness, language ideologies, and identity. It examines YouTube comments on a video …

Studies of conflict and conflict resolution rarely concern themselves with the ways in which
conflictive situations are triggered. Corsaro and Rizzo (1990), in considering interpersonal …

English bilinguals might say, This morning mi hermano y yo fuimos a comprar some milk
('This morning my brother and I went to buy some milk'), where the sentence begins in …