| Speech Acts and Politeness Across Languages and Cultures Leyre Ruiz de Zarobe is Associate Profesor in French Linguistics in the Department of French Philology at the University of the Basque Country/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea. Her main research interests and publications are in the field of French pragmatics, discourse analysis, and French as a Second/Foreign Language. Yolanda Ruiz de Zarobe is Associate Professor in English Linguistics in the Department of English Philology at the University of the Basque Country/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea. Her main research interests and publications are in the field of second language acquisition and multilingualism. |