Im/politeness between the analyst and participant perspectives - an overview of the field Eva Ogiermann and Pilar Garcés-Conejos Blitvich; Part I. Concepts and Cultural Norms Underlying Speech Acts: 1. Offers in Greek revisited Spyridoula Bella; 2. Politeness, praising and identity construction in a Greek food blog Angeliki Tzanne; 3. Online compliments of Iranian Facebook users Zohreh R. Eslami, Nasser Jabbari and Li-Jen Kuo; 4. Qué Perfección: complimenting behaviour among Ecuadorian teenage girls on Instagram María Elena Placencia; 5. Not all positive: on the landscape of thanking items in Cypriot Greek Spyros Armostis and Marina Terkourafi; 6. Researching im/politeness in face-to-face interactions: on disagreements in Polish homes Eva Ogiermann; Part II. Concepts and Cultural Norms Underlying Politeness: 7. Notions of politeness in Britain and America Jonathan Culpeper, Jim O'Driscoll and Claire Hardaker; 8. The metapragmatics of consideration in (Australian and New Zealand) English Michael Haugh; 9. A metapragmatic aspect of politeness: with a special emphasis on attentiveness in Japanese Saeko Fukushima; 10. Discussions on Swiss and German politeness in online sources Miriam A. Locher and Martin Luginbühl; 11. Globalisation and politeness - a Chinese perspective Daniel Kádár and Yongping Ran; 12. Emic conceptualizations of face (Imagen) in Peninsular Spanish Pilar Garcés-Conejos Blitvich and Patricia Bou-Franch; Epilogue: personal encounters with politeness research Peter Trudgill.