Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Preface vii
4. Chapter 1. Multimodal im/politeness 1
5. Part I. Signed
6. Chapter 2. In your face 27
7. Chapter 3. Politeness in Catalan Sign Language (LSC) 65
8. Part II. Spoken
9. Chapter 4. Multimodality in refusals in English as a lingua franca 101
10. Chapter 5. Indexing social distance through bodily visual practices in two languages 131
11. Chapter 6. Multimodal manifestation of ta’ârof in Persian 163
12. Chapter 7. Within-speaker accommodation behavior in apology-centered interactions 185
13. Chapter 8. Perceptual changes between adults and children for multimodal im/politeness in Japanese 213
14. Chapter 9. Multimodal markers of irony in televised discourse 251
15. Part III. Written
16. Chapter 10. Multimodality and subtitles 275
17. Chapter 11. Customer support agents in Spanish live chats 297
18. Chapter 12. “He offered an apologetic smile” 327
19. Subject index 353
20. Name index 356
21. Index of languages and cultures 359