Frontmatter

Articles in the same Issue

1. Frontmatter
2. Research Articles
3. Impoliteness, power and ethics
4. Performing positive politeness: political rhetoric in state dinner speeches by US-American presidents
5. Chinese perceptions and refutations of face-threatening impoliteness regarding diplomatic press conferences
6. Ritual frame indicating expressions used in requests in intercultural communication
7. Impolite, uncivil and underage: a case study about the influence of socio-demographic factors on discursive sanctioning
8. Saving lives, saving face: mitigated directives during out-of-hospital cardiac arrest resuscitation
9. A sociopragmatic study of the strategies and affecting factors of Chinese thanking responses
10. Address forms, social structures and social relations in postcolonial Sasak communities