Foreword / Francesca Bargiela-Chiappini -- 1. Introduction / Dániel Z. Kádár and Sara Mills -- I. Politeness in East Asia: Theory: 2. Politeness and culture / Sara Mills and Dániel Z. Kádár; 3. Honorifics: the cultural specificity of a universal mechanism in Japanese / Barbara Pizziconi; 4. Methodological issues in East Asian politeness research / Yuling Pan; 5. Intercultural communication and East Asian politeness / Stefanie Stadler -- t II. Politeness in East Asia: Practice: 6. Politeness in China / Dániel Z. Kádár and Yuling Pan; 7. Politeness in Japan / Mihael Haugh and Yasuko Obana; 8. Politeness in Korea / Alan Hyun-Oak Kim; 9. Politeness in Vietnam / Grace Chye Lay Chew; 10. Politeness in Singapore / Cher Leng Lee; 11. Epilogue: culture and norms in politeness research / Michael Haugh
Summary
Examines politeness and impoliteness in a range of East Asian languages, including Japanese, Korean, Chinese and Vietnamese
