Pragmatic and Cross-Cultural Competences Focus on Politeness

Contents: Thomas SZENDE & George ALAO: Introduction - Anthony J. LIDDICOAT & Troy McCONACHY: Meta-pragmatic awareness and agency in language learners' constructions of politeness - Peter STOCKINGER: The topos of polite behavior. Exploring thematic, narrative and discursive structures of a lexical field - Istvan KECSKES: Impoliteness as a part of pragmatic competence in L2 - Hélène DE PENANROS: When politeness is in the detail: the case of an imperative in Russian - Junji GONG & Joël BELLASSEN: Teaching fictive kinship terms in Chinese as a Foreign Language - San San HNIN TUN: Expressing politeness with discourse particles in Myanmar language - Festus A. SOYOYE: Politeness and terms of address and reference in French and YoruÌbaì - Jin-Ok KIM: Expression of politeness in Korean as a Foreign Language: diversity of linguistic means and order of acquisition - Viet Anh NGUYEN: Modelling a new approach to researching and teaching politeness in Vietnamese as an L2 - Orsolya MARÓTI: Politeness and pragmatic competence in teaching Hungarian as a Second Language: successes and pitfalls - Marijana PETROVIC: Should impoliteness be taught? - Shima MOALLEMI: L2 socialization, construction of bilingual pragmatic competence and the Persian politeness system "ta'ârof" - Festus A. SOYOYE, Tajudeen A. OSUNNIRAN & Joy C. NNABUIFE: A contrastive analysis of politeness strategies in West African Francophone and Igbo commercial interactions - Christelle HOPPE: Critical thinking, cognitive presence and social languages in an LMOOC - Elise Solange BAGAMBOULA: Politeness or buzitú ("respect") in Kikoongo (Laari)