All Stories

  1. Utterance-final conjunctive particles and implicature in Japanese conversation
  2. “Doing deference”
  3. The intuitive basis of implicature
  4. Taking it too far
  5. The metalinguistics of offence in (British) English
  6. Modulating troubles affiliating in initial interactions
  7. Negotiating speaker meaning
  8. Accusations and interpersonal conflict in televised multi-party interactions amongst speakers of (Argentinian and Peninsular) Spanish
  9. Divided by a common language? Jocular quips and (non-)affiliative responses in initial interactions among American and Australian speakers of English
  10. Afterword: Theorizing (im)politeness
  11. Getting to know you: Teasing as an invitation to intimacy in initial interactions
  12. Prompting offers of assistance in interaction
  13. Bogans, lawyers and teachers: On the interactional achievement of word meanings
  14. The role of English as a scientific metalanguage for research in pragmatics: Reflections on the metapragmatics of “politeness” in Japanese
  15. Understanding im/politeness across cultures: an interactional approach to raising sociopragmatic awareness
  16. Agency, accountability and evaluations of impoliteness
  17. Self-disclosure in initial interactions amongst speakers of American and Australian English
  18. Transformative continuations, (dis)affiliation, and accountability in Japanese interaction