Gender, politeness and institutional power roles: Humour as a tactic to gain compliance in workplace business meetings

Artikel in diesem Heft

1. Introduction
2. Gender, politeness and institutional power roles: Humour as a tactic to gain compliance in workplace business meetings
3. Verbal play on the hospital ward: Solidarity or power?
4. Pragmatic particles - polite but powerless? Tone-group terminal hein and quoi in contemporary spoken French
5. Revisiting the conceptualisation of politeness in English and Japanese
6. Relations of power and solidarity in scientific communities: A cross-cultural comparison of politeness strategies in the writing of native English speaking and Greek engineers
7. Linguistic politeness: The implicature approach
8. Class, gender and politeness
9. Book reviews