1st Edition
Lay (Im)politeness Evaluations in Face-to-face Interaction A Study of Greek Friendship Groups Living Abroad
By Vasiliki Saloustrou
Copyright 2026
100 Pages
10 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
100 Pages
10 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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This volume brings together work on im/politeness with identities analysis research through the study of lay understandings of im/politeness in face-to-face naturally occurring interactions.
The book features the case study of Greek friendship groups living abroad and their coffee meetings to unpack how individual negotiate explicit and implicit, multimodal evaluations of im/politeness in... Read more
1. Introduction, 2.Theoretical background, 3. Methodology, 4. Tracing evaluations of im/politeness in interaction, 5. Concluding discussion, References, Appendix, Index
Biography
Vasiliki Saloustrou is a Lecturer at the Department of English Linguistics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (Greece) and at the Department of Communications, Deree - The American College of Greece.
