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This special issue of the Journal of Politeness Research results from a series of novel perspectives that in recent years have led some linguists, both pragmatists and phoneticians, to investigate im/politeness through the study of phonic strategies. Some approaches have been carried out from more intralinguistic perspectives and others from more socio-pragmatic positions; some have focused on segmental patterns and others on suprasegmental traits or on paralinguistic strategies; however, all of them explore the role played by these phonic strategies in expressing im/politeness.