Product Description: This volume introduces the pragmatic theories underpinning different models of linguistic politeness and details key elements of various approaches to politeness, along with analytical tools and empirical studies. The book opens with a section on pragmatic concepts and follows with the evolution of politeness research across three decades...read more

Product Description: Gender and Language introduces an approach to the study of language use that explores the relationship between meaning generation and gender. Aimed at an interdisciplinary audience the book is both an accessible introductory text for students and an original contribution to current academic debates in feminism, gender theory, discourse analysis and linguistics...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)