The paper reviews a substantial part of the research on linguistic politeness, with the
objective to evaluate current politeness theories and to outline directions for future …

This paper reports a study on politeness strategies American English speakers and Chinese
speakers use to respond to compliments. It has three aims:(1) to discover similarities and …

Untitled Page 1 Page 2 Page 3 Sara Miller McCune founded SAGE Publishing in 1965 to
support the dissemination of usable knowledge and educate a global community. SAGE …

This chapter discusses the aspects of Korean grammar relevant to acquisition at various
points. It also explains the morphological identity of the prenominai adjectival ending and …

Interlanguage pragmatics research has contributed a great deal to our understanding of L2
pragmatic use but less to our understanding of L2 pragmatic development, although …

The question addressed in this paper is how children come to understand the three
dimensions of social distance, power, and degree of imposition that control the use of …

Using naturally occurring data, this paper examines in detail the masu form used by
caregivers and children in interaction at home. The following questions are addressed:(i) …

This paper reviews the work by researchers employing a language socialization (LS)
perspective in attempts to bring social factors into SLA theory. Second language …

The referential strategies used in narrative discourse by 60 Japanese children (aged 3
years; 8 months to 7 years; 4 months) and 10 adults were analyzed to determine the factors …

This chapter will consider the nature and function of Child Directed Speech (CDS), the
special register adopted by parents and others when talking to young children. Interest in …