This study is about the principles for constructing polite speeches. The core of it first appeared in Questions and Politeness, edited by Esther N. Goody (now out of print). It is here reissued with a fresh introduction that surveys the considerable literature in linguistics, psychology and the social sciences that the original extended essay stimulated, and suggests distinct directions for research. The authors describe and account for some remarkable parallelisms in the linguistic construction of utterances with which people express themselves in different languages and cultures. A motive for these parallels is isolated - politeness, broadly defined to include both polite friendliness and polite formality - and a universal model is constructed outlining the abstract principles underlying polite usages. This is based on the detailed study of three unrelated languages and cultures: the Tamil of South India, the Tzeltal spoken by Mayan Indians in Chiapas, Mexico, and the English of the USA and England, supplemented by examples from other cultures. Underneath the apparent diversity of polite behaviour in different societies lie some general pan-human principles of social interaction, and the model of politeness provides a tool for analysing the quality of social relations in any society. This volume will be of special interest to students in linguistic pragmatics, sociolinguistics, applied linguistics, anthropology, and the sociology and social psychology of interaction.

「時間」是原住民未來命運最大的敵人，瞬息的生滅，淘洗的不只是一個「個體」的生命，它也像潮汐一樣，剎那間便沖垮一個民族或文化築起的沙城。 　原住民文化存續的工作，是一項與時間賽跑的志業，原住民的存亡，也不完全只是原住民自己的事，它隱藏整個台灣的歷史、空間、族 群、文化等問題之重構歷程中各式各樣的組合動力和可能性。 　原住民各族母語長久以來所受到的不平等待遇，充分地反映了原住民九族同胞悲慘的處境。語言的迅速喪失，正是造成原住民黃昏性格的主因。若可能的話，我們也願意站在現實的基礎上，對推展原住民母語教育之若干實際問題，提出一些反省和建議。

《音乐人类学的理论与方法导论》主要内容：期待为了让年轻的一代学人能更直接、全面和系统地了解音乐人类学的学科胜质及其最新的发展成果与动向，更重要的是能够推动音乐人类学的“中国实践”发展成熟，并促使具有国际参照价值的特定历史文化特色的“中国经验”的不断积累，促使“中国经验”的音乐人类学研究的范式能对中国音乐文化的研究起到更为积极的作用。
《音乐人类学的理论与方法导论》由洛秦等编写，这本融合了中国学者对音乐人类学的认识、研究和思考编撰而成，并适合于中国音乐文化现状与发展的《音乐人类学的理论与方法导论》，也正是“中国经验”积累的成果之一。