Davies (linguistics and phonetics, U. of Leeds, UK), Haugh (languages and linguistics, Griffith U., Australia), and Merrison (English language and linguistics, York St. John U., UK) present 14 papers
State failure, ethnopolitical war, genocide, famine, and refugee flows are variants of a type of complex political and humanitarian crisis, exemplified during the 1990s in places like Somalia, Bosnia,
Pragmatic and sociolinguistic analyses of im/politeness have usually been dependent on context and cultural frames of reference. This new study approaches the concept from an original perspective, nam
