1. Bargiela Chiappini, Francesca. 2003. Face and Politeness: New (Insights) for Old (Concepts). Journal of Pragmatics 35 (10–11): 1453–1469.
2. Bax, Marcel. 2004. Out of Ritual. A Semiolinguistic Account of the Origin and Development of Indirect Language Behavior. In Semiotic Evolution and the Dynamics of Culture, ed. Marcel Bax, Barend van Heusden, and Wolfgang Wildgen, 155–213. Bern/Oxford: Peter Lang.
3. ———. 2010a. Rituals. In Handbook of Pragmatics, Vol. 8: Historical Pragmatics, ed. Andeas H. Jucker and Irma Taavitsainen, 483–519. Berlin/New York: Mouton de Gruyter.
4. ———. 2010b. Epistolary Presentation Rituals. Face-Work, Politeness, and Ritual Display in Early Modern Dutch Letter-Writing. In Historical (Im)politeness, ed. Jonathan Culpeper and Dániel Z. Kádár, 37–85. Bern: Peter Lang.
5. ———. 2011. An Evolutionary Take on (Im)politeness: Three Broad Developments in the Marking Out of Socio-Proxemic Space. Journal of Historical Pragmatics 12 (1/2): 255–282.