Table of contents
PrefaceVII
Chapter 1.Multimodal im/politeness: Introduction1
Part I.Signed
Chapter 2.In your face: Im/politeness in signed languages, with examples from Swiss German Sign Language (DSGS)27
Chapter 3.Politeness in Catalan Sign Language (LSC): Mitigation of criticisms in spontaneous discourse in LSC65
Part II.Spoken
Chapter 4.Multimodality in refusals in English as a lingua franca101
Chapter 5.Indexing social distance through bodily visual practices in two languages131
Chapter 6.Multimodal manifestation of ta’ârof in Persian163
Chapter 7.Within-speaker accommodation behavior in apology-centered interactions: The role of socio-pragmatic factors185
Chapter 8.Perceptual changes between adults and children for multimodal im/politeness in Japanese213
Chapter 9.Multimodal markers of irony in televised discourse: A corpus-based approach251
Part III.Written
Chapter 10.Multimodality and subtitles: A focus on im/politeness in Japanese films with French subtitles through the example of some rituals275
Chapter 11.Customer support agents in Spanish live chats: Affective communication and multimodal politeness297
Chapter 12.“He offered an apologetic smile”: The politeness of apologetic gestures327
Subject index353
Name index356
Index of languages and cultures359
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