Directness as a source of misunderstanding

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Foreword xi
5. Introduction 1
6. Part I. General overviews
7. Civility and its discontents 23
8. How and why honorifics can signify dignity and elegance 45
9. Whither politeness 65
10. Part II. The theoretical perspective
11. Yoroshiku onegaishimasu 87
12. An argument for a frame-based approach to politeness 99
13. The significance of ‘face’ and politeness in social interaction as revealed through Thai ‘face’ idioms 117
14. Part III. The descriptive perspective
15. Face threatening acts, primary face threatening acts, and the management of discourse 129
16. Politeness in Thai computer-mediated communication 145
17. Polite diminutives in Spanish 163
18. Indirectness as a politeness strategy of Thai speakers 175
19. Part IV. The comparative perspective
20. Japanese honorifics as a marker of sociocultural identity 197
21. Directness as a source of misunderstanding 217
22. Forms of address in Irish and Swedish 235
23. Women, men and polite requests 245
24. Privacy 275
25. Selection of linguistic forms for requests and offers 283
26. Part V. The historical perspective
27. Japanese pronouns of address 301
28. An aspect of the origins and development of linguistic politeness in Thai 315
29. Index 337