Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- To the reader
- Introduction
- Gestures & Signals
- Customs & Behaviours
- No hug for Dr Livingstone: a demonstration of restraint
- It hurts to say goodbye: the Parthian shot
- How stiff can your upper lip get? avoiding strangers
- Chinese whispers: greeting and parting rituals in China
- From Russia with love: sit on your case and say goodbye
- Cut it out! how to avoid saying ‘hello’
- I don't speak to my mother-in-law: avoidance language
- Phonethics: telephone mannerisms
- Thanks for having me on! names and forms of address in the media
- Eskimodesty: greeting and visiting in the Arctic
- Names & Addresses
- Postscript
- Notes
- Sources
- Index
How stiff can your upper lip get? avoiding strangers
from Customs & Behaviours
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 04 February 2010
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- To the reader
- Introduction
- Gestures & Signals
- Customs & Behaviours
- No hug for Dr Livingstone: a demonstration of restraint
- It hurts to say goodbye: the Parthian shot
- How stiff can your upper lip get? avoiding strangers
- Chinese whispers: greeting and parting rituals in China
- From Russia with love: sit on your case and say goodbye
- Cut it out! how to avoid saying ‘hello’
- I don't speak to my mother-in-law: avoidance language
- Phonethics: telephone mannerisms
- Thanks for having me on! names and forms of address in the media
- Eskimodesty: greeting and visiting in the Arctic
- Names & Addresses
- Postscript
- Notes
- Sources
- Index
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- Tales of Hi and ByeGreeting and Parting Rituals Around the World, pp. 99 - 104Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2009