2008

Issue 2 – Politeness and Interaction

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• Communication Models and their Use in Various Theories of Language

(Richard Repka)

• Academic Interaction: Adapting Complexity and Coherence to the Readership

(Josef Schmied)

• Politeness Issues from a Slovak Speaker’s Perspective (When in Rome…, Nitra 2003, Revisited)

(Alena Kačmárová)

• Politeneness in Advertising

(Edita Hornáčková Klapicová)

• FTAs in U.S. TV Commercials on Cosmetic Products

(Jana Leciánová)

• Politeness in Nursing Discourse

(Klaudia Valdmanová)

• Advertising Slogans in Pragmatic References

(Katarína Nemčoková)

• Approaches to the Textual Theme

(Renata Pípalová)

• The Debatable Status of U.S. Presidential Debates (Controversy over the Memoranda of Understanding)

(Lucia Štofanová)

• Something Nice to Say… (Compliments in English and Czech)

(Silvie Válková)

• The Performative Verb in Legal Texts

(Eva Pavlíčková)

• Specific Nature of Question-answer Exchanges of Television Political Interview in English

(Magda Rázusová)

• Politeness Universals in an Interview

(Pavlína Saldová)

• Turn-taking Management During Cross-Examination: Lay People as Cross-Examiners

(Tetyana Tkachuk)