Francesca Bargiela-Chiappini Editor & Author

Francesca Bargiela-Chiappini is a senior research fellow in the School of Arts and Humanities at Nottingham Trent University. She is a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Politeness Research and has published articles on face and politeness and politeness in the workplace.Michael Haugh is a lecturer in the School of Languages and Linguistics at Griffith University. He has published work on the emic notion of 'face' in Japanese and the relationship between 'face' and 'politeness' in the Journal of Pragmatics, Multilingua, and Intercultural Pragmatics as well in Asian Business Discourse(s).