Book reviews
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Holmes, Janet and Maria Stubbe (2003). Power and Politeness in the Workplace: A Sociolinguistic Analysis of Talk at Work. London: Longman. Paperback ISBN 0-582-36877-4; 208 pp. Price: £20.99.(Karen Grainger)
Vine, Bernadette (2004). Getting Things Done at Work: The Discourse of Power in Workplace Interaction. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins. Hardback ISBN 90-272-5366 (Eur) / 1-58811-521 6 (US); 276 pp. Price: USD $114.00/Euro 95.00.(Sandra Harris)
Lee-Wong, Song-Mei (2000) Politeness and Face in Chinese Culture. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang. Paperback ISBN: 3-63132-022-1. 344 pp. Price USD $57.95.(Bethan Davies)
Pan, Yuling (2000). Politeness in Chinese Face-to-Face Interaction: Stamford: Ablex. Hardback ISBN 1-56750-492-2; Paperback ISBN 1-56750-493-0; 161 pp. Price: Hb: USD: $115.00/£66.00. Pb: USD $34.99/£19.99.(Catherine Hua Xing)
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Articles in the same Issue
- Special issue of the Journal of Politeness
- Politeness at work: Issues and challenges
- Power distance at work: The cases of Turkey, successor states of the former Soviet Union and Western Europe.
- “Girls on tour”: Politeness, small talk, and gender in managerial business meetings
- Politeness in small shops in France
- Aspects of polite behaviour in French and Syrian service encounters: A data-based comparative study
- Politeness in the portrayal of workplace relationships: Second person address forms in Peninsular Spanish and the translation of humour.
- Politeness markers in French: post-posed quoi in the Tourist Office
- Book reviews
Articles in the same Issue
- Special issue of the Journal of Politeness
- Politeness at work: Issues and challenges
- Power distance at work: The cases of Turkey, successor states of the former Soviet Union and Western Europe.
- “Girls on tour”: Politeness, small talk, and gender in managerial business meetings
- Politeness in small shops in France
- Aspects of polite behaviour in French and Syrian service encounters: A data-based comparative study
- Politeness in the portrayal of workplace relationships: Second person address forms in Peninsular Spanish and the translation of humour.
- Politeness markers in French: post-posed quoi in the Tourist Office
- Book reviews
