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1. Situating Politeness Bethan Davies, Michael Haugh and Andrew JohnMerrison; Part I: Politeness in Institutional Settings; 2. Relativity Rules:Politic Talk in Ethnicised Workplaces Janet Holmes and Meredith Marra; 3.Negative Politeness Features and Impoliteness in Institutional Discourse: ACorpus-Assisted Approach Charlotte Taylor; 4. That's Not Very Polite!Discursive Struggle and Situated Politeness in the Mexican English-languageClassroom Gerrard Mugford; 5. Getting Stuff Done: Institutional Requests inUK Higher Education E-mail Andrew John Merrison and Bethan Davies; 6.Expectations and Realities: How to Behave in the Post-Observation FeedbackEvent Fiona Copland; 7. National Face and National Face-Threatening Acts:Elements of Politeness in Informative Booklets on the European ConstitutionElena Magisto; Part II: Politeness in Communities of Practice; 8. Communitiesof Practice and Politeness Sara Mills; 9. Relational Work in a SportingCommunity of Practice Jodie Clark; 10. Do You Want to Do it Yourself Like?Hedging in Irish Traveller and Settled Family Discourse Brian Clancy; 11.Situated (Im)Politeness and the Use of Addressee Honorifics in JapaneseTelevision Dramas Andrew Barke; Part III: Discursive Perspectives on theSituatedness of Politeness; 12. Situated Impoliteness: The Interface betweenRelational Work and Identity Construction Miriam Locher; 13. Unpacking theHearer's Interpretation of Situated Politeness Noriko Inagaki; 14. Humour andFace in Getting Acquainted Michael Haugh; 15. Tourist Advertising ofAustralia: Impolite or Situation-Appropriate? Angela Ardington; 16.Confrontation or Communication? The Negotiation of Face and Power via EmailShin-Chieh Hsieh; Bibliography; Index.