All Stories

  1. (Un)intended offence
  2. Ambulant vendors’ living labour on Copacabana beach
  3. Fabricated ignorance
  4. A contrastive study of conventional indirectness in Spanish
  5. Sociality and moral conflicts
  6. Alternative Approaches to Politeness and Impoliteness
  7. Pragmatics of intimacy
  8. Language and speakerhood in migratory contexts
  9. Car and vanpooling as an alternative to public transport
  10. Interviews as sites of ideological work
  11. The Pragmatics of Sensitive Activities in Institutional Discourse
  12. (Co-)Constructing Interpersonally Sensitive Activities Across Institutional Settings
  13. The (co-) construction of potentially interpersonally sensitive activities across languages and institutional contexts
  14. Requests and counters in Russian traffic police officer-citizen encounters
  15. When routine calls for information become interpersonally sensitive
  16. Review of Terkourafi (2015): Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Im/politeness
  17. A Sociolinguistics of Diaspora
  18. The dynamics of complaining in a Latin American for-profit commercial setting
  19. “Talk to the hand”. Complaints to a public transport company
  20. Mediated Business InteractionsIntercultural Communication Between Speakers of Spanish
  21. Introduction
  22. Methodology
  23. Openings
  24. Closings
  25. The Negotiation of the Business Exchange
  26. Some Final Reflections: Towards an Understanding of Intercultural Communication in Spanish
  27. Multilingual and transnational encounters in late modernity: Linguistic practices and social processes
  28. Introduction: Service provision in a globalised world
  29. 'A ella no le gusta que le digan María y a mí que me traten de tú'. A window into Latin American diversity
  30. Intra-cultural variation: Explanations in service calls to two Montevidean service providers.
  31. Interactional Closeness in Service Calls to a Montevidean Carer Service Company
  32. Complaint calls to a caregiver service company: The case of desahogo
  33. Spanish Pragmatics
  34. Current Trends in the Pragmatics of Spanish
  35. 2. The pragmatics of Spanish beyond Spain
  36. 7. Displaying closeness and respectful distance in Montevidean and Quiteño service encounters
  37. Task difficulty in speaking tests
  38. LINGUISTIC POLITENESS IN BRITAIN AND URUGUAY: A CONTRASTIVE STUDY OF REQUESTS AND APOLOGIES. Rosina Marquez Reiter. Amsterdam: Benjamins, 2001. Pp. xviii + 225. $95.00 cloth.
  39. Pragmatic variation in Spanish:
  40. Linguistic Politeness in Britain and Uruguay