Although linguistic politeness has been extensively theorized about, the role of nonverbal behaviour in managing politeness in interactions has been neglected until recently.
The current study was driven by the most recent research trend of interlanguage pragmatics, which regards communication as a complex phenomenon and considers a learner's ability to produce social…
Although discursive scholars emphasize that norms of appropriate behaviour play a vital role in politeness evaluations, the relational work framework has yet to provide analytic tools that capture…