Lay (Im)politeness Evaluations in Face-to-face Interaction

This volume brings together work on im/politeness with identities analysis research through the study of lay understandings of im/politeness in face-to-face naturally occurring interactions.This volume will appeal to scholars interested in im/politeness, in such fields as pragmatics, interactional sociolinguistics, and discourse analysis.

Vasiliki Saloustrou is a Lecturer at the Department of English Linguistics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (Greece) and at the Department of Communications, Deree - The American College of Greece.

1. Introduction, 2.Theoretical background, 3. Methodology, 4. Tracing evaluations of im/politeness in interaction, 5. Concluding discussion, References, Appendix, Index