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Politeness in Professional Contexts
Edited by Dawn Archer, Karen Grainger and Piotr Jagodziński
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series 311] 2020
► pp. 1–22

Chapter 1
Introduction

Politeness in professional contexts

| Manchester Metropolitan University
| Sheffield Hallam University
| Manchester Metropolitan University
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction to Part I: Politeness in medical contexts
  • 2.Introduction to Part II: Politeness in business and organisational contexts (including emails)
  • 3.Introduction to Part III: Politeness in legal and security contexts
  • 4.Notions of politeness, facework and relational work adopted in this edited collection
  • 5.Context, politeness theorizing and professional practice/training
    • 5.1Context
    • 5.2Politeness theorizing
    • 5.3Professional practice/training
  • Notes
  • References
Published online: 21 August 2020
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