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Published online: 4 December 2025

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Lucien Brown & Soung-U Kim. Politeness Metapragmatics: Inductive Research, Multimodality and Critical Theory. Cham: Springer, 2025. xi + 259 pp. ISBN 978-3-031-81642-0 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-81643-7