The Palgrave Handbook of Linguistic (Im)politeness

Jonathan Culpeper is Professor of English Language and Linguistics in the Department of Linguistics and English Language at Lancaster University, UK. His major publications, spanning pragmatics and the English Language, include Impoliteness: Using Language to Cause Offence (2011). He was co-editor-in-chief of the Journal of Pragmatics. Michael Haugh is Professor of Linguistics in the School of Languages and Cultures at the University of Queensland, Australia. He is currently Co Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Pragmatics, and recent books include Im/Politeness Implicatures (2015) and Understanding Politeness (2013, with Dániel Z. Kádar). Dániel Z. Kádár is Professor of English Language and Linguistics and Director of the Centre for Intercultural Politeness Research at the University of Huddersfield, UK. His major publications include Politeness, Impoliteness, and Ritual – Maintaining the Moral Order in Interpersonal Interaction (2011), Understanding Politeness (with M. Haugh, 2013), and Relational Rituals and Communication (2013).

- Chapter 1: Introduction; Jonathan Culpeper, Michael Haugh and Dániel Kádár.- PART I: FOUNDATIONS.- Chapter 2: Pragmatic approaches to (im)politeness; Jonathan Culpeper and Marina Terkourafi.- Chapter 3: Socio-cultural approaches to (im)politeness; Sara Mills.- Chapter 4: Ideology and (im)politeness; Manfred Kienpointner and Maria Stopfner.- Chapter 5: Face and (im)politeness; Jim O’Driscoll.- Chapter 6: Power, solidarity and (im)politeness; Helen Spencer-Oatey and Vlad Žegarac.- Chapter 7: Indexicality and (im)politeness; Barbara Pizziconi and Chris Christie.- Chapter 8: Convention and ritual (im)politeness; Marina Terkourafi and Dániel Kádár.- PART II: DEVELOPMENTS.- Chapter 9: Impoliteness; Jonathan Culpeper and Claire Hardaker.- Chapter 10: (Im)politeness and identity; Pilar Garcés-Conejos Blitvich and Maria Sifianou.- Chapter 11: (Im)politeness and relationality; Jun Ohashi and Wei-Lin Melody Chang.- Chapter 12: (Im)politeness and emotion; Andreas Langlotz and Miriam A. Locher.- Chapter 13:  (Im)politeness and mixed messages; Jonathan Culpeper, Michael Haugh and Valeria Sinkeviciute.- Chapter 14:  (Im)politeness: Prosody and gesture; Lucien Brown and Pilar Prieto.- Chapter 15: Experimental approaches to (im)politeness; Thomas Holtgraves and Jean-François Bonnefon.- Chapter 16: (Im)politeness and developments in methodology; Andreas H. Jucker and Larssyn Staley.- PART III: (IM)POLITENESS AND VARIATION.- Chapter 17: Historical (im)politeness; Andreas H. Jucker and Joanna Kopaczyk.- Chapter 18: (Im)politeness: Language socialization; Haruko Minegishi Cook and Matthew Burdelski.- Chapter 19: (Im)politeness: Learning and teaching; J. César Félix-Brasdefer and Gerrard Mugford.- Chapter 20: (Im)politeness and gender; Malgorzata Chalupnik, Chris Christie and Louise Mullany.- Chapter 21: (Im)politeness and regional variation; Klaus P. Schneider and María Elena Placencia.- Chapter 22: (Im)politeness and cultural variation; Maria Sifianou and Pilar Garcés-Conejos Blitvich.- Chapter 23: Intercultural (im)politeness; Michael Haugh and Dániel Kádár.- PART IV: (IM)POLITENESS IN SPECIFIC CONTEXTS.- Chapter 24:  (Im)politeness in the workplace; Janet Holmes and Stephanie Schnurr.- Chapter 25: (Im)politeness in service encounters; Rosina Márquez Reiter and Patricia Bou-Franch.- Chapter 26: (Im)politeness in health settings; Miriam A. Locher and Stephanie Schnurr.- Chapter 27: (Im)politeness in legal settings; Dawn Archer.- Chapter 28: Facework and (im)politeness in political exchanges; Karen Tracy.- Chapter 29: (Im)politeness in fictional texts; Derek Bousfield and Dan McIntyre.- Chapter 30: (Im)politeness in digital communication; Sage Lambert Graham and Claire Hardaker.