Faithin Omaha eBook Collection

This volume includes 14 papers investigating politeness phenomena in Greece and Turkey, the cultural cross-roads of Europe, Asia and the Middle East. It reflect

This is the first edited collection to examine politeness in a wide range of diverse cultures. Most essays draw on empirical data from a wide variety of languag

This book examines the importance of politeness in pragmatic expression and communication, making a significant contribution to the debate over whether the univ

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This book investigates linguistic variation as a complex continuum of language use from standard to nonstandard. In our view, these notions can only be establis