‘… a very valuable contribution to the field for those teaching language and gender courses … will appeal primarily to the many scholars working in the area of politeness theory … will also be a valuable addition to the critical material available to graduates interested in pragmatics more generally, and to those interested in postmodernist approaches to gender analysis in particular … this is an intellectually stimulating book …’. Journal of Sociolinguistics

‘… a timely reconsideration of gender and politeness … this book has a great deal to offer researchers in various sub-disciplines of linguistics. It challenges taken-for-granted assumptions which will enable linguistic analysis to become a more theoretically complex activity, and I firmly believe that this publication will be a highly influential and authoritative text in gender and politeness research for many years to come.’ Journal of Politeness Research