Part I.Signed

Chapter 2.In your face: Im/politeness in signed languages, with examples from Swiss German Sign Language (DSGS)27

Penny Boyes Braem

Katja Tissi

Chapter 3.Politeness in Catalan Sign Language (LSC): Mitigation of criticisms in spontaneous discourse in LSC65

Berta Moya-Avilés

Gemma Barberà

Carme Bach

Part II.Spoken

Chapter 4.Multimodality in refusals in English as a lingua franca101

Xianming Fang

Chapter 5.Indexing social distance through bodily visual practices in two languages131

Lucien Brown

Iris Hübscher

Hyunji Kim

Bodo Winter

Chapter 6.Multimodal manifestation of ta’ârof in Persian163

Farbod Farahandouz

Shima Moallemi

Chapter 7.Within-speaker accommodation behavior in apology-centered interactions: The role of socio-pragmatic factors185

Omnia Ibrahim

Iris Hübscher

Chapter 8.Perceptual changes between adults and children for multimodal im/politeness in Japanese213

Takaaki Shochi

Albert Rilliard

Donna Erickson

Chapter 9.Multimodal markers of irony in televised discourse: A corpus-based approach251

Claudia Lehmann

Chapter 10.Multimodality and subtitles: A focus on im/politeness in Japanese films with French subtitles through the example of some rituals275

Chantal Claudel

Chapter 11.Customer support agents in Spanish live chats: Affective communication and multimodal politeness297

Ester Iyanga-Mambo

Chapter 12.“He offered an apologetic smile”: The politeness of apologetic gestures327

Andreas H. Jucker

Subject index353

Name index356

Index of languages and cultures359