María de la O Hernández-López Ph.D. (2009), is a Lecturer in English and Culture at Pablo de Olavide University (Seville). Her publications focus on cross-cultural and intercultural communication. She has lately co-edited New Perspectives on (Im)politeness and Interpersonal Communication (2012).Lucía Fernández-Amaya, Ph.D. (2002), is a Lecturer in English at the Department of Philology and Translation, Pablo de Olavide University, Seville. Her publications focus on pragmatics. She has lately co-edited New Perspectives on (Im)politeness and Interpersonal Communication (2012).Contributors are Rebeca Bataller, Patricia Bou-Franch, Antonio Carmona-Lavado, Jan P. De Ruiter, Sundaram Dorai, Pilar Garcés-Conejos Blitvich, María de la O Hernández-López, Kersting Huth, Francisco Miguel Ivorra Pérez, Raquel Lázaro Gutiérrez, Sebastian Loth, Marilyn Merritt, María Elena Placencia, and Cynthia Webster.