Acknowledgements

This volume is the result of a collaboration between the three editors who all worked together at the English Department of the University of Basel for several years. In 2021, we organised a conference which joined scholars from the Symposium of Im/Politeness with scholars from the i-mean conference. The special theme of the conference was the pragmatics of translation and we decided to bring scholars together in this book project after the inspiring dialogue we had during this conference. We would like to thank the contributors for engaging in discussions with us about the papers, their willingness to read each other’s work and for engaging with the external comments in such a speedy and responsive way. We also owe thanks to the two external reviewers and to the John Benjamins team, who all have contributed to making this collection stronger.