Self-reporting studies are among the earliest methods of data collection in im/ politeness research. Their first use in the investigation of im/politeness predates the advent of theories of politeness per se, going back to Brown and Gilman’s seminal study on T/V address in several, mainly European, languages (Brown & Â�Gilman 1960). In that study, the authors report having used, alongside a variety of written sources and interviews, a purpose-built questionnaire which, in addition to asking subjects to provide the pronoun they would use with a variety of addressees, included “some rather elaborate items which ask[ed] the subject to imagine himself [sic] in some carefully detailed social situation and then to say what pronoun he would use” (1960:â•›262) – an early version of a Discourse Completion Test, or DCT, as this type of data collection instrument came to be known.