Frontmatter -- 1. Ethnopragmatics: a new paradigm -- 2. Anglo scripts against "putting pressure" on other people and their linguistic manifestations -- 3. "Lift your game Martina!": deadpan jocular irony and the ethnopragmatics of Australian English -- 4. Social hierarchy in the "speech culture" of Singapore -- 5. Why the "inscrutable" Chinese face? Emotionality and facial expression in Chinese -- 6. Cultural scripts: glimpses into the Japanese emotion world -- 7. The communicative realisation of confianza and calor humano in Colombian Spanish -- 8. "When I die, don't cry": the ethnopragmatics of "gratitude" in West African languages -- Author index -- General index