The concept of politeness permeates all aspects of modern life and society. However, to what exte...

Politeness and impoliteness are not just expressed by words. People communicate polite and impoli...

Drawing on a wide range of fictional texts from Shakespeare and Austen to Game of Thrones and the...

The future of English linguistics as envisaged by the editors of Topics in English Linguis...

This volume traces the multifaceted concept of manners in the history of English from the late me...

The eleven original papers collected in this volume address themselves to some of the central iss...

In Early Modern Britain, new publication channels were developed and new textual genres establish...

Languages change and they keep changing as a result of communicative interactions and practices i...

Studies of Discourse Markers so far have concentrated on either the descriptive or the theoretica...

This handbook provides a comprehensive overview of spatial configurations of language use and of ...

Address term systems and their diachronic developments are discussed in a wide range of European ...