Im/politeness between the analyst and participant perspectives: an overview of the field / Eva Ogiermann & Pilar Garcés-Conejos Blitvich
Part I. Concepts and cultural norms underlying speech acts: 1. Offers in Greek revisited / Spyridoula Bella
2. Politeness, praising and identity construction in a Greek food blog / Angeliki Tzanne
3. Online Compliments of Iranian Facebook Users / Zohreh R. Eslami, Nasser Jabbari & Li-Jen Kuo
4. Qué perfección: Complimenting Behaviour among Ecuadorian Teenage Girls on Instagram / María Elena Placencia
5. Not all positive: On the landscape of thanking items in Cypriot Greek / Spyros Armostis & Marina Terkourafi
6. Researching im/politeness in face-to-face interactions: On disagreements in Polish homes / Eva Ogiermann
Part II. Concepts and cultural norms underlying politeness: 7. Notions of politeness in Britain and America / Jonathan Culpeper, Jim O'Driscoll and Claire Hardaker
8. The metapragmatics of consideration in (Australian and New Zealand) English / Michael Haugh
9. A metapragmatic aspect of politeness: With a special emphasis on attentiveness in Japanese / Saeko Fukushima
10. Discussions on Swiss and German politeness in online sources / Miriam A. Locher & Martin Luginbühl
11. Globalisation and politeness: A Chinese perspective / Daniel Kádár & Yongping Ran
12. Emic conceptualizations of face (imagen) in Peninsular Spanish / Pilar Garcés-Conejos Blitvich & Patricia Bou-Franch
Epilogue: Personal encounters with politeness research / Peter Trudgill.