The present volume embodies a nice marriage of the etic view of the contributors and the emic descriptions as some authors focus on metapragmatic uses of verbal hypocrisy, offering contextualized and yet replicable research agendas to the research into hypocrisy and politeness research. This volume is recommended reading for students and scholars interested in pragmatics, discourse studies, communication studies, sociology and political science.

- Rong Lei & Yongping Ran, Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, in Journal of Pragmatics 229 (2024).,

The volume is extremely stimulating and thought-provoking, both for research and for one’s own communication choices. It will certainly encourage further research on communication, politeness and face and also, perhaps, on the exact boundary between hypocrisy and “mere” insincerity, as well as on the relationship between hypocrisy and accommodation theory.

- Laure Gardelle, Université Grenoble Alpes, LIDILEM, in e-Rea 22.1 (2024).,

<i>The Pragmatics of Hypocrisy</i> is a recommended read to researchers interested in (im)politeness, metapragmatics and meaning-making processes. Some chapters will additionally appeal to researchers of political discourse, online interaction, speech act theory, and ostentatious actions.

- Roni Danziger, Tel Aviv University, in Pragmatics and Society 16:2 (2025).,