This series promotes specialist language studies, both in the fields of linguistic theory and applied linguistics, by publishing volumes that focus on specific aspects of language use and provide valuable insights into language and communication research. A cross-disciplinary approach is favoured and most European languages are accepted.

Leyre Ruiz de Zarobe is Associate Profesor in French Linguistics in the Department of French Philology at the University of the Basque Country/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea. Her main research interests and publications are in the field of French pragmatics, discourse analysis, and French as a Second/Foreign Language. Yolanda Ruiz de Zarobe is Associate Professor in English Linguistics in the Department of English Philology at the University of the Basque Country/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea. Her main research interests and publications are in the field of second language acquisition and multilingualism.

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Contents: Eva Ogiermann: About Polish Politeness – Deniz Zeyrek: Thanking in Turkish: A Corpus-based Study – Spyridoula Bella/Maria Sifianou: Greek Student E-mail Requests to Faculty Members – Luis M. Larringan/Itziar Idiazabal: ‘Generic ’ in Basque: A Politeness Strategy in Young People Debates? – Xiangying Jiang: Politeness and Facework in Chinese Language and Culture – Kathrin Siebold: Implicit and Explicit Thanking in Spanish and German – Leyre Ruiz de Zarobe: Learning-offers on the Internet in Spanish and French – Maria Shardakova: Cross-Cultural Analysis of the Use of Humor by Russian and American English Speakers – J. César Félix-Brasdefer/Maria Hasler-Barker: Complimenting and Responding to a Compliment in the Spanish FL Classroom: From Empirical Evidence to Pedagogical Intervention – Seonaid Beckwith/Jean-Marc Dewaele: The Effect of two Years Abroad on the Development of Apologies in the Japanese L2 of Adult English Native Speakers – Otilia Martí Arnándiz: Are Women more Polite than Men? The Effect of Gender on the Use of Request Modifiers by Spanish EFL University Students – Vesna Mikolic: Teaching Slovenian and Italian Communication Style – Eva Ogiermann/Denise Saßenroth: Statistics in Contrastive Pragmatics.