Politeness in Europe (Multilingual Matters, 2005)
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Politeness in Germany : politeness in "Germany"? / Juliane House -- Politeness in France : how to buy bread politely / Catherine Kerbrat-Orecchioni -- Politeness in Belgium : face, distance, and sincerity in service-exchange rituals / Emmanuelle Danblon, Bernard de Clerck and Jean-Pierre van Noppen -- Politeness in Luxembourg : greetings from foreign parts / Johannes Kramer -- Politeness in The Netherlands : indirect requests / Rob le Pair -- Politeness in Austria : politeness and impoliteness / Silvia Haumann, Ursula Koch, and Karl Sornig -- Politeness in Switzerland : between respect and acceptance / Guiseppe Manno -- Politeness in Britain : "it's only a suggestion" / Miranda Stewart -- Politeness in Ireland : "in Ireland, it's done without being said" / Jeffrey L. Kallen -- Politeness in Norway : how can you be polite and sincere? / Thorstein Fretheim -- Politeness in Denmark : getting to the point / Elin Fredsted -- Politeness in Sweden : parliamentary forms of address / Cornelia Ilie -- Politeness in Finland : evasion at all costs / Valma Yli-Vakkuri -- Politeness in Estonia : a matter-of-fact style / Leelo Keevallik -- Politeness in Poland : from "titlemania" to grammaticalised honorifics / Romuald Huszcza -- Politeness in Hungary : uncertainty in a changing society / Lóránt Becze -- Politeness in the Czech Republic : distance, levels of expression, management, and intercultural contact / Jiří Nekvapil and J.V. Neustupný -- Politeness in Greece : the politeness of involvement / Maria Sifianou and Eleni Antonopoulou -- Politeness in Cyprus : a coffee or a small coffee? / Marina Terkourafi -- Politeness in Italy? : the art of self-representation in requests / Gudrun Held -- Politeness in Portugal : how to address others / Maria Helena Araújo Carreira -- Politeness in Spain : thanks but no "thanks" / Leo Hickey
Politeness as practised across 22 European societies, firmly set within critical debates developed since the 1980s, is here presented in ways related to concrete situations in which language-users interact with one another to achieve their goals