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The Affective Dynamics of Online Discourse

Edited by Anna Piata

Special issue of Internet Pragmatics 9:1 (2026) v, 220 pp.

Crises We Live By: A transdisciplinary study of crisis and its metaphors in their cultural context

Edited by Irene Leonardis

After an original foreword from Andreas Musolff setting the stage of the book, Crises We Live By offers a series of case studies that highlight different ways of conceptualizing and speaking about crisis, above all metaphorically. Its title echoes Lakoff and Johnson’s famous Metaphors We Live By… read more

[Cognitive Linguistic Studies in Cultural Contexts, 20] 2026. xi, 267 pp.

Discourses of War and Peace: 21st century perspectives

Edited by Cornelia Ilie

The goal of this volume is to explore and make sense of the overall scope, implications and consequences of shifting discourses of war, peace and neutrality across time and space, in relation to conflict-ridden geopolitical environments characterized by power struggles, political polarizations,… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 355] 2026. vi, 323 pp.

Discourses on Racism and Resilience: Between power and resistance

Edited by Marjo Lindroth, Heidi Sinevaara-Niskanen and Claes Tängh Wrangel

Special issue of Journal of Language and Politics 25:2 (2026) v, 120 pp.

Multilingual Corpus Research: Advances and challenges

Edited by Noelia Ramón and María Pérez Blanco

Multilingual corpora have been used in cross-linguistic research for 30 years. New technologies have dramatically changed the processes of compilation and exploitation of tailor-made corpora for linguistic research. The studies included in this volume showcase current cross-linguistic research… read more

[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 126] 2026. vi, 341 pp.

Patterns of Context: Modelling cultural and contextual influence in utterance interpretation

Edited by Elke Diedrichsen and Frank Liedtke

Human language in its performances is not to be considered without taking into account the environment in which it takes place, i.e. its physical, social, or cultural setting. A description of the regularity or pattern driven character of this relationship is, however, still a desideratum for… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 356] 2026. vi, 295 pp. + index

Principles of New Science: Dialogue in the stream of life

Edda Weigand

This book looks beyond the limit of certainty which has long been taken as a defining characteristic of science. Beyond certainty lies complexity. How can complexity be addressed in the framework of science? What can science of complexity mean? The first and basic principle is that we recognize… read more

[Dialogue Studies, 35] 2026. xiii, 169 pp. + index | open access

Register and Discourse through the Lens of Corpus Linguistics

Edited by Nuria Yáñez-Bouza, Dolores González-Álvarez and Esperanza Rama-Martínez

Register and Discourse through the Lens of Corpus Linguistics offers a rigorous and engaging exploration of two of the field’s most dynamic areas. Drawing on key frameworks – including Construction Grammar, Corpus-Assisted Discourse Studies, Speech Act Theory, and Local Grammar – the volume… read more

[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 127] 2026. vi, 327 pp.

Beyond Binaries in Address Research: Politeness and identity practices in interaction

Edited by Víctor Fernández-Mallat and María Irene Moyna

Beyond binaries in address research: Politeness and identity practices in interaction shifts the focus of address studies away from the traditional T/V opposition and toward a more flexible, contextually situated framework. The volume brings together linguistic phenomena that do not fit neatly… read more

[Topics in Address Research, 6] 2025. vi, 266 pp.

Beyond Words: Pragmatic approaches to visual discourses in digital interactions

Edited by Agnese Sampietro and Carmen Pérez-Sabater

Special issue of Internet Pragmatics 8:2 (2025) v, 213 pp.

COVID-19: Metaphor and metonymy across languages and cultures

Edited by Xu Wen, Wei-lun Lu, Joe Lennon and Zoltán Kövecses

The COVID-19 pandemic set off a maelstrom of social, cultural, and political changes—as well as some surprising linguistic ones. This volume explores these dramatic changes through the lens of Cognitive Linguistics, analysing noteworthy examples of pandemic discourse to reveal correspondences and… read more

[Metaphor in Language, Cognition, and Communication, 11] 2025. vi, 344 pp.

Decoding Movie Language through Multi-Dimensional Analysis and the Grammar of Graphics

Pierfranca Forchini

This book offers a comprehensive and refined account of movie discourse through the application of Multi-Dimensional Analysis (MDA) to the American Movie Corpus, a collection of authentic, verified movie dialog transcriptions. Expanding on previous MDA-based research, it broadens both the scope of… read more

[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 124] 2025. vii, 329 pp.

Discourse Theory and the Turn to Practice

Edited by Benjamin De Cleen, Nico Carpentier, Jason Glynos, Jana Goyvaerts, Maximilian Grönegräs and Yannis Stavrakakis

Special issue of Journal of Language and Politics 24:1 (2025) vi, 175 pp.

Emancipatory Pragmatics: Innovative approaches to pragmatics incorporating the concept of “ba”

Edited by Yoko Fujii, William F. Hanks, Sachiko Ide, Scott Saft and Kishiko Ueno

Emancipatory Pragmatics represents a unique contribution to the field of pragmatics. Most research in the field has focused on English and other Western languages, but the study of Japanese and other non-Western languages, as is done in this volume, has led to a broader understanding of language… read more

[Culture and Language Use, 24] 2025. xiv, 384 pp. | open access

Evaluative Discourse Metaphor in Online Communities

Mateusz-Milan Stanojević and Ljiljana Šarić

This monograph introduces the Evaluative Discourse Metaphor model, which argues that participants in public and semi-public online discourse (re)use evaluative metaphors to construct and maintain communities. We explore how such metaphors trigger others with similar forms, though not necessarily… read more

[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 106] 2025. xiii, 284 pp.

Framing in Interaction: Pragmatic approaches to framing analysis

Edited by Simon Borchmann, Anne H. Fabricius and Ida Klitgård

This volume invites its readers to rethink the linguistic basis for framing analysis by problematizing the existing foundation and presenting eight new pragmatically based framing analyses.The book challenges the assumption that there is a unilateral, one-to-one relationship between words and… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 354] 2025. v, 279 pp.

Handbook of Pragmatics: 28th Annual Installment

Edited by Jana Declercq, Frank Brisard, Sigurd D’hondt and Mieke Vandenbroucke

This encyclopaedia of one of the major fields of language studies is a continuously updated source of state-of-the-art information for anyone interested in language use. The IPrA Handbook of Pragmatics provides easy access – for scholars with widely divergent backgrounds but with convergent… read more

[Handbook of Pragmatics, 28] 2025. xiii, 194 pp.

Identity Perspectives from Peripheries

Edited by Yoshiko Matsumoto and Jan-Ola Östman

Data dubbed “peripheral” or previously unaccounted for have inspired new methods, new models and theories of language and new ways of understanding language and communication within pragmatics. The chapters in the volume extend this perspective to include language users and their identities as… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 352] 2025. vii, 295 pp.

Local Grammar Approaches to Speech Act Studies: Apology in contemporary spoken British English

Hang Su

This book brings together corpus linguistics and pragmatics by extending the emerging corpus analytic framework of local grammar to speech act research, aiming to enrich the toolkit of corpus-based speech act studies. It outlines four directions in which local grammar can be useful for… read more

[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 123] 2025. xxii, 224 pp.

The Making of Multi-Unit Turns: A spring-loaded door

Rod Gardner, Joe Blythe, Ilana Mushin, Lesley Stirling, Josua Dahmen, Caroline de Dear and Francesco Possemato

The Making of Multi-Unit Turns is the first book-length treatment to comprehensively describe extended turns produced by a single speaker. It draws on multiparty everyday conversations in English, using the methods of Conversation Analysis. It brings together the currently scattered literature on… read more

[Studies in Language and Social Interaction, 38] 2025. xix, 378 pp.

Male Separatism: Discourse, ideology, and argumentation

Jessica Aiston

This book offers a critical discourse analytical perspective on the phenomenon of men who voluntarily abstain from relationships with women. Based on a case study of the online Reddit community known as ‘Men Going Their Own Way’, the author engages in qualitative examination of the argumentative… read more

[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 104] 2025. xiii, 202 pp.

Mobile Eye Tracking: New avenues for the study of gaze in social interaction

Edited by Elisabeth Zima and Anja Stukenbrock

Situated within the flourishing domain of pragmatics, this volume explores the crucial role of gaze in human interaction, with a particular focus on the potential of mobile eye tracking to advance our methodology and understanding of multimodal communication. Readers will find a comprehensive,… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 351] 2025. vi, 316 pp. | open access

News with an Attitude: Ideological perspectives in the historical press

Edited by Claudia Claridge

This volume extends research on ideology in the news into the historical sphere, spanning discourse from the mid-seventeenth to the early twentieth century. The chapters investigate the ideological representation and assessment of political events across three continents, such as uprisings,… read more

[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 105] 2025. vii, 250 pp.

The Person in Politics: Pronouns and political personalization in U.S. presidential campaigns

Lilla Petronella Szabó

Personalization has become a central feature of political communication. Politicians appear on late-night talk shows, smile from billboards, and post family photos on social media – placing themselves at the heart of public discourse. As individual personalities take center stage, abstract… read more

[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 107] 2025. xiii, 198 pp.

Semantic-Pragmatic Change from Intersubjective to Textual Meanings

Edited by Giulio Scivoletto and Ryo Takamura

This is the first comprehensive volume to explore the tendency from ‘intersubjective’ to ‘textual’ functions in semantic-pragmatic change. It challenges the influential hypothesis based on the pioneering works by Traugott, i.e. the unidirectionality of change from objective to subjective and then… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 353] 2025. vi, 288 pp.

Vagueness as an Implicitating Persuasive Strategy

Giorgia Mannaioli

The book presents an integrated model of vagueness as an implicit and persuasive strategy, pervasive in everyday language use and public discourse. It considers three macro-dimensions of the phenomenon: linguistic-theoretical, psychological, and social-discursive. It shows how vagueness can be… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 350] 2025. ix, 272 pp.

(Non)referentiality in Conversation

Edited by Michael C. Ewing and Ritva Laury

Although there is a large literature on referentiality, going back to at least the nineteenth and early twentieth century, much of this early work is based on constructed data and most of it is on English. The chapters in this volume contribute to a growing body of work that examines referentiality… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 344] 2024. v, 209 pp.

Advances in the Study of Social Action in Online Interaction

Edited by Valeria Sinkeviciute

Special issue of Internet Pragmatics 7:1 (2024) v, 191 pp.

Children’s Peer Cultures in Dialogue: Participation, hierarchy, and social identity in diverse schools

Nicola Nasi

Contemporary schools are enlivened by a multitude of children with rather disparate linguistic, cultural, and socioeconomic backgrounds. These children spend most of their school hours in interaction with other children, engaging in multifarious activities (conflict, gossip, play, humor,… read more

[Dialogue Studies, 34] 2024. x, 202 pp.

The Cultural Pragmatics of Danger: Cross-linguistic perspectives

Edited by Carsten Levisen and Zhengdao Ye

This book addresses the problems and challenges of studying the discourse of "danger" cross-linguistically and cross-culturally, and proposes the cultural pragmatics of danger as a new field of inquiry. Detailed case studies of several linguacultures include Arabic, Chinese, Danish, English,… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 346] 2024. vii, 251 pp.

Exploring the Ambivalence of Liquid Racism: In between antiracist and racist discourse

Edited by Argiris Archakis and Villy Tsakona

The ongoing migration ‘crisis’ in European countries (2015 to date) has fostered different stances and practices within European nation-states, ranging from xenophobia to solidarity. In this context, two contradictory discourses seem to coexist: the national racist discourse and the humanitarian,… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 341] 2024. viii, 294 pp.

Exploring the Sociopragmatics of Online Humor

Villy Tsakona

This monograph explores the diverse sociopragmatic functions and meanings of humorous discourse in various online contexts affecting its use. To this end, an analytical model is proposed which takes into consideration the aspects of context which are relevant to the production and reception of… read more

[Topics in Humor Research, 12] 2024. xi, 264 pp.

Handbook of Pragmatics: 27th Annual Installment

Edited by Mieke Vandenbroucke, Jana Declercq, Frank Brisard and Sigurd D’hondt

This encyclopaedia of one of the major fields of language studies is a continuously updated source of state-of-the-art information for anyone interested in language use. The IPrA Handbook of Pragmatics provides easy access – for scholars with widely divergent backgrounds but with convergent… read more

[Handbook of Pragmatics, 27] 2024. xiii, 273 pp.

Influencer Discourse: Affective relations and identities

Edited by Pilar Garcés-Conejos Blitvich and Alexandra Georgakopoulou

The rise of influencers, as power-players in the social media landscape, is a defining feature of the digital era, one that has received much attention from a variety of social science disciplines. But despite the key role that language, along with other semiotic modes, plays in the construction… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 349] 2024. vi, 306 pp.

Language Change in the 20th Century: Exploring micro-diachronic evolutions in Romance languages

Edited by Salvador Pons Bordería and Shima Salameh Jiménez

Language Change in the 20th Century: Exploring micro-diachronic evolutions in Romance languages examines the distinctive features that set the study of the 20th century apart from preceding periods. With a primary focus on Romance languages, including Spanish, Italian, French, and Portuguese, the… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 340] 2024. vi, 292 pp.

Manufacturing Dissent: Manipulation and counter-manipulation in times of crisis

Edited by Cornelia Ilie

Spotlighting case studies of manipulation practices at the onset of the Covid-19 crisis in different countries and socio-political circumstances, the authors expose context-specific discourse and argumentation strategies of 'infodemics’ (misleading information and fake news), public policy… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 339] 2024. vi, 311 pp.

Media as Procedures of Communication

Edited by Martin Luginbühl and Jan Georg Schneider

The book explores the multifaceted nature of media and communication by challenging traditional views that consider media solely as technical infrastructures for transmitting information. Instead, it focuses on mediality as an empirically relevant concept and proposes to understand media as… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 348] 2024. vi, 308 pp.

Narrative Boundaries: Constitutional struggles in an age of polarization

Edited by Rodrigo Cordero and Raimundo Frei

Special issue of Journal of Language and Politics 23:5 (2024) vi, 149 pp.

New Perspectives in Interactional Linguistic Research

Edited by Margret Selting and Dagmar Barth-Weingarten

This collection of original papers illustrates recent trends and new perspectives for future research in Interactional Linguistics (IL). Since the research program was started around the turn of the century, it has prospered internationally. Recently, however, new developments have opened up new… read more

[Studies in Language and Social Interaction, 36] 2024. vii, 428 pp. | open access

Political discourse analysis of female political leaders in the Global South

Edited by Mark Nartey

Special issue of Journal of Language and Politics 23:1 (2024) vi, 153 pp.

The Pragmatics of Hypocrisy

Edited by Sandrine Sorlin and Tuija Virtanen

As a first attempt to date, this book addresses the notion of hypocrisy from a pragmatic perspective and devises a comprehensive model of verbal hypocrisy. The studies included adopt emic and etic approaches in order to contribute jointly towards an understanding of what appears to be a ubiquitous… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 343] 2024. viii, 268 pp.

Radical Right-Wing Populism and Borders: Positioning antagonistic discourses in the (de)bounded spaces of power

Edited by Christian Lamour and Oscar Mazzoleni

Special issue of Journal of Language and Politics 23:3 (2024) vi, 166 pp.

Self- and Other-Reference in Social Contexts: From global to local discourses

Edited by Minna Nevala and Minna Palander-Collin

The chapters in this volume study the construction, representation and negotiation of a variety of social roles through self- and other-reference markers or the discussion of reference as a tool for identification. The chapters uncover new insights both from a historical and present-day perspective… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 342] 2024. v, 195 pp.

Structures in Discourse: Interaction, adaptability, and pragmatic functions

Edited by Martin Gill, Aino Malmivirta and Brita Wårvik

This volume aims to stretch the boundaries of text and discourse linguistics, exploring organization and structuring in discourse across a variety of communication forms, from written to spoken to visual, in old and new media. It presents a collection of case studies ranging in focus from the… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 345] 2024. ix, 207 pp.

Trends in Second Language Pragmatics Research Part 2

Special issue of Applied Pragmatics 6:2 (2024) v, 113 pp.

Vagueness, Ambiguity, and All the Rest: Linguistic and pragmatic approaches

Edited by Ilaria Fiorentini and Chiara Zanchi

This book aims to address a gap in the existing literature on the relationship between vagueness and ambiguity, as well as on their differences and similarities, both in synchrony and diachrony, and taking into consideration their relation to language use. The book is divided into two parts, which… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 347] 2024. vi, 286 pp.

Variation in University Student Writing: A communicative text type approach

Larissa Goulart

This book provides a comprehensive description of the situational and linguistic characteristics of undergraduate student writing, considering both assignment type and discipline. Drawing on a corpus of more than 900 undergraduate student assignments from four disciplinary groups (Arts and… read more

[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 117] 2024. xviii, 239 pp.

The Academic Discourse of Mechanical Engineering: A corpus-based study into rhetorical conventions of research articles

Thi Ngoc Phuong Le, Minh Man Pham and Michael Barlow

This volume examines rhetorical conventions employed in mechanical engineering research to understand the knowledge-making principles of the discipline, as well as their expression within the research article. In particular, the study analyses the organisational patterns of mechanical engineering… read more

[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 107] 2023. xiii, 320 pp.

Authoritarianism on the Front Page: Multimodal discourse and argumentation in times of multiple crises in Greece

Dimitris Serafis

This volume offers a critical discursive-argumentative framework that scrutinizes the discursive construction and, moreover, the argumentative justification of authoritarian attitudes on newspaper front pages in highly polarized times of multiple ‘crises’ in Greece. At the same time, it aspires to… read more

[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 99] 2023. xiv, 181 pp.

Corpora and Rhetorically Informed Text Analysis: The diverse applications of DocuScope

Edited by David West Brown and Danielle Zawodny Wetzel

Corpora and Rhetorically Informed Text Analysis explores applications of rhetorically informed approaches to corpus research. Bringing together contributions from scholars in a variety of fields, it takes up questions of how theories and traditions in rhetorical analysis can be integrated with… read more

[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 109] 2023. vii, 292 pp.

Cultural Linguistics and Critical Discourse Studies

Edited by Monika Reif and Frank Polzenhagen

The present volume explores the meeting ground between Critical Discourse Studies and Cultural Linguistics. The contributions investigate culture-specific conceptualisations, ways of framing and conceptual metaphors in political discourse, as well as cultural models, cultural stereotypes and… read more

[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 103] 2023. v, 212 pp.

Culture of Sustainability and Discourses of Social Change

Edited by Franzisca Weder

Special issue of Journal of Language and Politics 22:5 (2023) vi, 202 pp.

Describing and assessing interactional competence in a second language: Special issue of the journal of Applied Pragmatics 5:2 (2023)

Edited by Emma Betz, Taiane Malabarba and Dagmar Barth-Weingarten

Special issue of Applied Pragmatics 5:2 (2023) vi, 176 pp.

Exploring Language and Society with Big Data: Parliamentary discourse across time and space

Edited by Minna Korhonen, Haidee Kotze and Jukka Tyrkkö

As the legislative bodies of democratic nations, parliaments play a fundamental role in society. Consequently the linguistic practices observed in parliamentary discourse are of importance to everyone. This volume brings together leading researchers in areas of corpus linguistics, big data,… read more

[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 111] 2023. vi, 379 pp.

Handbook of Pragmatics: 26th Annual Installment

Edited by Sigurd D’hondt, Pedro Gras, Mieke Vandenbroucke and Frank Brisard

This encyclopaedia of one of the major fields of language studies is a continuously updated source of state-of-the-art information for anyone interested in language use. The IPrA Handbook of Pragmatics provides easy access – for scholars with widely divergent backgrounds but with convergent… read more

[Handbook of Pragmatics, 26] 2023. xiii, 187 pp.

Hate Speech in Online Media

Edited by Anton Granvik, Mélanie Buchart and Hartmut Lenk

Special issue of Internet Pragmatics 6:2 (2023) v, 149 pp.

It's different with you: Contrastive perspectives on address research

Edited by Nicole Baumgarten and Roel Vismans

This book is a collection of studies about forms of address in the world’s languages, with a focus on contrast and difference. The individual chapters highlight inter- and intralinguistic variation in the expression of address and its sociol-cultural functions across media, registers, geographical… read more

[Topics in Address Research, 5] 2023. vi, 432 pp.

L2 Pragmatics in Action: Teachers, learners and the teaching-learning interaction process

Edited by Alicia Martínez-Flor, Ariadna Sánchez-Hernández and Júlia Barón

This is the first edited volume dedicated to both teachers and learners of second/foreign language (L2) pragmatics. It comprises a collection of studies that explore how teachers background and practices, and individual learners differences contribute to the teaching and learning of L2 pragmatics.… read more

[Language Learning & Language Teaching, 58] 2023. xxii, 343 pp.

Multimodal Im/politeness: Signed, spoken, written

Edited by Andreas H. Jucker, Iris Hübscher and Lucien Brown

Politeness and impoliteness are not just expressed by words. People communicate polite and impolite attitudes towards each other through their intonation, tone of voice, their facial expressions, their gestures, the positioning of their bodies towards each other, and so on. This volume brings… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 333] 2023. vii, 360 pp.

The Populist Radical Right Beyond Europe

Edited by Cristóbal Rovira Kaltwasser and Lisa Zanotti

Special issue of Journal of Language and Politics 22:3 (2023) v, 130 pp.

A Pragmatic Agenda for Healthcare: Fostering inclusion and active participation through shared understanding

Edited by Sarah Bigi and Maria Grazia Rossi

This volume addresses the issue of pragmatic meaning and interpretation in communication contexts regarding health and does so by combining a series of diverse and complementary approaches, which together highlight the relevance of successfully shared understanding to achieve more accessible,… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 338] 2023. vi, 397 pp.

Pragmatics and Translation

Edited by Miriam A. Locher, Daria Dayter and Thomas C. Messerli

This volume presents innovative research on the interface between pragmatics and translation. Taking a broad understanding of translation, papers are presented in four different parts. Part I focuses on interpreting; Part II centers on the translation of fictional and non-fictional texts and… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 337] 2023. vii, 336 pp.

The Pragmatics of Humour in Interactive Contexts

Edited by Esther Linares Bernabéu

Recent years have seen a burgeoning interest in interactional humour from social and pragmatic perspectives, with fascinating results. Released more than a decade later than Norrick and Chiaro (2009) Humor in Interaction, The Pragmatics of Humour in Interactive Contexts gathers some of the most… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 335] 2023. vi, 239 pp.

Reference: From conventions to pragmatics

Edited by Laure Gardelle, Laurence Vincent-Durroux and Hélène Vinckel-Roisin

This volume provides an innovative approach to the referential process thanks to its focus on the relationship between conventions and discourse pragmatics. It brings together a cross-section of current research on referential conventions and pragmatic strategies, in a number of different fields… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 228] 2023. vi, 349 pp.

Remedies against the Pandemic: How politicians communicate crisis management

Edited by Nadine Thielemann and Daniel Weiss

The present volume offers a fresh perspective on political top-down crisis communication across several countries during the first two years of the COVID-19 pandemic. This includes how leaders address the growing awareness of the dangerous impact of social restrictions, along with the controversies… read more

[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 102] 2023. vi, 301 pp.

Revisiting Sentence Adverbials and Relevance

Irina T. Pandarova

This book offers a fresh take on several long-standing issues relating to the (non-)truth-conditional interpretation of epistemic, evidential, hearsay and attitudinal sentence adverbials. Drawing on a wealth of data from English and German, it shows for the first time that all four adverbial… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 334] 2023. ix, 254 pp.

Risk Discourse and Responsibility

Edited by Annelie Ädel and Jan-Ola Östman

The widespread view that risk is highly relevant in late modern societies has also meant that the very study of risk has become central in many areas of social studies. The key aim of this book is to establish Risk Discourse as a field of research of its own in language studies. Risk Discourse is… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 336] 2023. vii, 260 pp.

Social Media and Society: Integrating the digital with the social in digital discourse

Edited by Majid KhosraviNik

Social Media and Society brings together a range of scholars working at the intersection of discourse studies, digital media, and society. It is meant to respond to changes in discourse technologies, i.e. the techno-discursive dynamic of social media discourses. The book critically engages with the… read more

[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 100] 2023. v, 210 pp.

Voices of Supporters: Populist parties, social media and the 2019 European elections

Veronika Koller, Natalia Borza, Massimiliano Demata, Laura Filardo-Llamas, Anna W. Gustafsson, Susanne Kopf, Marlene Miglbauer, Valeria Reggi, Ljiljana Šarić, Charlotta Seiler Brylla and Maria Stopfner

This book addresses an under-researched area within populism studies: the discourse of supporters of populist parties. Taking the 2019 European elections as their case study, the authors analyse how supporters in eleven different countries construct identities and voting motivations on social media. read more

[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 101] 2023. vi, 333 pp.

(De)legitimising EUrope in times of crisis

Edited by Franco Zappettini and Samuel Bennett

Special issue of Journal of Language and Politics 21:2 (2022) v, 199 pp.

Argumentative Style: A pragma-dialectical study of functional variety in argumentative discourse

Frans H. van Eemeren, Bart Garssen, Sara Greco, Ton van Haaften, Nanon Labrie, Fernando Leal and Peng Wu

Argumentative Style discusses the various ways in which the defence of a standpoint is given shape in argumentative discourse. In this innovative study the new notion – ‘argumentative style’ – introduced for this purpose is situated in the theoretical framework of the pragma-dialectical approach to… read more

[Argumentation in Context, 20] 2022. x, 332 pp.

Conspiracy Theory Discourses

Edited by Massimiliano Demata, Virginia Zorzi and Angela Zottola

Conspiracy Theory Discourses addresses a crucial phenomenon in the current political and communicative context: conspiracy theories. The social impact of conspiracy theories is wide-ranging and their influence on the political life of many nations is increasing. Conspiracy Theory Discourses bridges… read more

[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 98] 2022. x, 509 pp.

Corpus Pragmatic Studies on the History of Medical Discourse

Edited by Turo Hiltunen and Irma Taavitsainen

The original studies in this volume provide new insights into the history of medical discourse across centuries in both professional and lay texts. The central themes deal with changes in medical writing in various societal and cultural contexts in search for best practices in corpus pragmatics for… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 330] 2022. vii, 322 pp.

Discourse Structuring Markers in English: A historical constructionalist perspective on pragmatics

Elizabeth Closs Traugott

This book is a contribution to the growing field of diachronic construction grammar. Focus is on corpus evidence for the importance of including conventionalized pragmatics within construction grammar and suggestions for how to do so. The empirical domain is the development of Discourse Structuring… read more

[Constructional Approaches to Language, 33] 2022. xviii, 274 pp.

Figuring out Figuration: A cognitive linguistic account

María Sandra Peña-Cervel and Francisco José Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez

This book combines explanatory breadth with analytical delicacy. It offers a comprehensive study of a broad array of traditional figures of speech by systematizing linguistic evidence of the cognitive processes underlying them. Such processes are explicitly linked to different communicative… read more

[Figurative Thought and Language, 14] 2022. ix, 296 pp.

Formality and Informality in Online Performances

Edited by Sofia Rüdiger and Susanne Mühleisen

Special issue of Internet Pragmatics 5:1 (2022) v, 195 pp.

Genre in World Englishes: Case studies from the Caribbean

Susanne Mühleisen

World Englishes and English in postcolonial contexts have been curiously neglected in an otherwise abundant research literature on text types and genres in English. This volume looks at the adaptation, transformation and emergence of genres in the particular cultural context of the Anglophone… read more

[Varieties of English Around the World, G67] 2022. viii, 229 pp.

Handbook of Pragmatics: 25th Annual Installment

Edited by Frank Brisard, Sigurd D’hondt, Pedro Gras and Mieke Vandenbroucke

This encyclopaedia of one of the major fields of language studies is a continuously updated source of state-of-the-art information for anyone interested in language use. The IPrA Handbook of Pragmatics provides easy access – for scholars with widely divergent backgrounds but with convergent… read more

[Handbook of Pragmatics, 25] 2022. xiii, 256 pp.

Handbook of Pragmatics: 24th Annual Installment

Edited by Jan-Ola Östman and Jef Verschueren

This encyclopaedia of one of the major fields of language studies is a continuously updated source of state-of-the-art information for anyone interested in language use. The IPrA Handbook of Pragmatics provides easy access – for scholars with widely divergent… read more

[Handbook of Pragmatics, 24] 2022. xiii, 284 pp.

Handbook of Pragmatics: Manual. Second edition

Edited by Jef Verschueren and Jan-Ola Östman

The Manual section of the Handbook of Pragmatics, produced under the auspices of the International Pragmatics Association (IPrA), is a collection of articles describing traditions, methods, and notational systems relevant to the field of linguistic pragmatics; the main body of the Handbook contains… read more

[Handbook of Pragmatics, M2] 2022. xxi, 1882 pp. (2 vols.)

Hegemony, Discourse, and Political Strategy: Towards a post-Marxist understanding of contestation and politicization

Thomas Jacobs

Hegemony, Discourse, and Political Strategy revisits a question that has long fascinated socialists, progressives, democrats, Greens, and Marxists – how do left-wing forces win at politics? Thirty-five years ago, Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe tackled this puzzle in ground-breaking fashion, by… read more

[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 97] 2022. vi, 234 pp.

Introduction to Cognitive Pragmatics

Klaus-Uwe Panther

This textbook is designed for advanced (graduate and postgraduate) students, and will also be of interest to scholars. It blends a cognitive linguistic approach to language and language use with insights from contemporary pragmatics, the ultimate aim being to advance a unified model of cognitive… read more

[Cognitive Linguistics in Practice, 4] 2022. xxiii, 283 pp.

Language, Politics and Media: The Hong Kong Protests

Edited by Guofeng Wang and Ming Liu

Special issue of Journal of Language and Politics 21:1 (2022) vi, 189 pp.

Modeling Irony: A cognitive-pragmatic account

Inés Lozano-Palacio and Francisco José Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez

This book adopts a broad cognitive-pragmatic perspective on irony which sees ironic meaning as the result of complex inferential activity arising from conflicting conceptual scenarios. This view of irony is the basis for an analytically productive integrative account capable of bridging gaps among… read more

[Figurative Thought and Language, 12] 2022. ix, 173 pp.

A Pragmatic Approach to Fluency and Disfluency in Learner Language: Cofluencies as sites of accountability, sequentiality, and multimodality

Maximiliane Frobenius

This monograph presents analyses of filled and unfilled pauses, cut-offs, repair, discourse markers and other phenomena often referred to as disfluencies in the context of advanced language learners' PowerPoint presentations. It adopts a multimodal perspective to demonstrate the functions of these… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 332] 2022. ix, 260 pp.

The Pragmatics of Internet Memes

Edited by Chaoqun Xie

What is a meme? What is in a meme? What does ‘living in/with memes’ actually mean? What do memes mean to human beings dwelling in a life-world at once connected and fragmented by the internet and social media? Answers to and ways of answering these and other meme questions that arise in social… read more

[Benjamins Current Topics, 120] 2022. v, 183 pp.

Relationships in Organized Helping: Analyzing interaction in psychotherapy, medical encounters, coaching and in social media

Edited by Claudio Scarvaglieri, Eva-Maria Graf and Thomas Spranz-Fogasy

This edited volume offers up-to-date research on the interactive building and managing of relationships in organized helping. Its contributions address this core of helping in psychotherapy, coaching, doctor-patient interaction, and digital helping interaction and document and analyze essential… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 331] 2022. vi, 331 pp.

Science Communication in Times of Crisis

Edited by Pascal Hohaus

This volume addresses demands on external and internal science communication in times of crisis. The contributions discuss present crises such as COVID-19 (e.g. vaccination campaigns or political reactions towards the pandemic in the context of science scepticism), and climate change (e.g.… read more

[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 96] 2022. vi, 222 pp.

Trends in Second Language Pragmatics Research Part I

Special issue of Applied Pragmatics 4:2 (2022) v, 80 pp.

Address Variation in Sociocultural Context: Region, power and distance in Italian service encounters

Agnese Bresin

This study looks at the sociocultural context of five Italian regions and at the situational context of restaurant encounters (a sub-type of service encounters) to examine address variation in spoken Italian—with a focus on singular address pronouns tu, voi and lei. It offers a thorough examination… read more

[Topics in Address Research, 2] 2021. xxi, 290 pp.

Approaches to Internet Pragmatics: Theory and practice

Edited by Chaoqun Xie, Francisco Yus and Hartmut Haberland

Internet-mediated communication is pervasive nowadays, in an age in which many people shy away from physical settings and often rely, instead, on social media and messaging apps for their everyday communicative needs. Since pragmatics deals with communication in context and how more gets… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 318] 2021. vii, 348 pp.

An Argumentative Analysis of the Emergence of Issues in Adult-Children Discussions

Rebecca G. Schär

This book traces the issue in argumentative discussions from its emergence to its evolution. The book makes use of naturally occurred data of spoken argumentation to investigate how an issue is raised and possibly negotiated in argumentative discussions between young children (aged 2 to 6 years)… read more

[Argumentation in Context, 19] 2021. xv, 160 pp.

Beyond Meaning

Edited by Elly Ifantidou, Louis de Saussure and Tim Wharton

Despite the fact that they are often crucial to our understanding, the vague, ineffable elements of language use and communication have received much less attention from linguists than the more concrete, effable ones. This has left a range of important questions unanswered. How might we account for… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 324] 2021. vi, 200 pp.

Degrees of European Belonging: The fuzzy areas between us and them

Élisabeth Le

While we tend to divide the world into Us and Them, a number of grey nuances exist beyond this white and black distinction. The purpose of this book is to address the fuzzy areas between Us and Them through the study of European belonging as it is represented in the French elite daily, Le Monde.… read more

[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 91] 2021. xvi, 251 pp.

Discourse Studies in Public Communication

Edited by Eliecer Crespo-Fernández

The collection of articles in Discourse Studies in Public Communication illustrates that public communication is a fascinating, evidence-based storehouse for research in discourse analysis. The contributions to this volume — in the spheres of political rhetoric, gender and sexuality, and corporate… read more

[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 92] 2021. viii, 323 pp.

Discourse Theory: Ways forward for theory development and research practice

Edited by Benjamin De Cleen, Jana Goyvaerts, Nico Carpentier, Jason Glynos, Yannis Stavrakakis and Ilija Tomanić Trivundža

Special issue of Journal of Language and Politics 20:1 (2021) vi, 195 pp.

Discourses of Fake News

Edited by Scott Wright

Special issue of Journal of Language and Politics 20:5 (2021) vi, 183 pp.

Email Pragmatics and Second Language Learners

Edited by Maria Economidou-Kogetsidis, Milica Savić and Nicola Halenko

This is the first edited collection focusing exclusively on how second language users interpret and engage with the processes of email writing. With chapters written by an international array of scholars, the present volume is dedicated to furthering the study of the growing field of L2 email… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 328] 2021. vii, 258 pp.

Figurative Language – Intersubjectivity and Usage

Edited by Augusto Soares da Silva

Intersubjectivity and usage play central roles in figurative language and are pivotal notions for a cognitively realistic research on figures of thought, speech, and communication. This volume brings together thirteen studies that explore the relationship between figurativity, intersubjectivity and… read more

[Figurative Thought and Language, 11] 2021. xii, 442 pp.

History, Discourse, and Policy in Modern Turkey

Alper Çakmak

Through critical discourse analysis (CDA) and the discourse-historical approach (DHA), this book probes into political discourse imbued with historical legacies, with particular focus on explicating the structure and function of AKP stories and its relationship with Turkish politics. It offers an… read more

[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 95] 2021. xvi, 212 pp.

How Emotions Are Made in Talk

Edited by Jessica S. Robles and Ann Weatherall

How Emotions Are Made in Talk brings together an exciting collection of cutting-edge interactional research examining emotions and affectivity as social actions. The international selection of scholars draw on ethnomethodology and conversation analysis applied to a range of settings including… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 321] 2021. xvii, 292 pp.

Intersubjectivity in Action: Studies in language and social interaction

Edited by Jan Lindström, Ritva Laury, Anssi Peräkylä and Marja-Leena Sorjonen

Intersubjectivity is a precondition for human life – for social organization as well as for individual development and well-being. Through empirical examination of social interactions in everyday and institutional settings, the authors in this volume explore the achievement and maintenance of… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 326] 2021. vi, 437 pp.

Language and Social Interaction at Home and School

Edited by Letizia Caronia

As Ragnar Rommetveit put it forty years ago, dialogue is “the architecture of intersubjectivity”: a tool not only for maintaining yet also constantly transforming our life-worlds. The volume advances and empirically illustrates the role of talk-in-interaction in displaying, ratifying, creating yet… read more

[Dialogue Studies, 32] 2021. vi, 385 pp.

Language, Multimodal Interaction and Transaction: Studies of a Southern Chinese marketplace

Xuehua Xiang

Xuehua Xiang examines multimodal interaction in the marketplace in a multilingual town at the juncture of urbanization in Southern China. Using a collection of data that span nearly 20 years from ethnographic fieldwork, Language, Multimodal Interaction and Transaction: Studies of a Southern Chinese… read more

[Studies in Chinese Language and Discourse, 14] 2021. xii, 217 pp.

The Manipulative Disguise of Truth: Tricks and threats of implicit communication

Viviana Masia

Becoming effective hunters of manipulative communicative moves is far from an easy capacity to develop. This book aims at offering a guide to the most dangerous traps of deceptive language as triggered by implicit communication strategies such as presupposition, implicature, topicalization and… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 322] 2021. xvi, 220 pp. + index

Multimodal Performance and Interaction in Focus Groups

Kristin Enola Gilbert and Gregory Matoesian

Focus group interviews have seen explosive growth in recent years. They provide evaluations of social science, educational, and marketing projects by soliciting opinions from a number of participants on a given topic. However, there is more to the focus group than soliciting mere opinions. Moving… read more

[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 90] 2021. xi, 190 pp.

The Mysterious Address Term anata 'you' in Japanese

Yoko Yonezawa

The use of the second person singular pronoun anata ‘you’ in modern Japanese has long been regarded as mysterious and problematic, generating contradictory nuances such as polite, impolite, intimate, and distancing. Treated as a troublesome pronoun, scholars have searched for a semantically loaded… read more

[Topics in Address Research, 4] 2021. xv, 208 pp.

Negation, Expectation and Ideology in Written Texts: A textual and communicative perspective

Lisa Nahajec

During an election campaign in 2008, Ken Livingstone said to a newspaper reporter “this election is not a joke”. By doing so, he introduced an expectation into the discourse that someone does, in fact, think it is a joke. This book explores how it is that saying what is not the case communicates… read more

[Linguistic Approaches to Literature, 38] 2021. xiii, 218 pp.

OKAY across Languages: Toward a comparative approach to its use in talk-in-interaction

Edited by Emma Betz, Arnulf Deppermann, Lorenza Mondada and Marja-Leena Sorjonen

OKAY has been termed ‘a spectacular expression’ and ‘America’s greatest invention.’ This volume offers an in-depth empirical study of the uses that have resulted from its global spread. Focusing on actions and interactional practices, it investigates OKAY in a variety of settings in 13 languages.… read more

[Studies in Language and Social Interaction, 34] 2021. vii, 440 pp.

Participation, Engagement and Collaboration in Newsmaking: A postfoundational perspective

Edited by Jana Declercq, Geert Jacobs, Felicitas Macgilchrist and Astrid Vandendaele

This book brings together new research on the practices of newsmaking. Participation, engagement and collaboration have long been heralded as a vision, goal or emerging practice in the news. The claim in this volume is that they have now become sedimented as the common-sense baseline for everyday… read more

[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 94] 2021. vi, 186 pp.

Police Interviews: Communication challenges and solutions

Edited by Luna Filipović

This collection breaks new ground in police communication research. It involves the first instance of the same dataset being analysed from different theoretical and methodological perspectives as well as providing original and detailed insights into both monolingual and bilingual UK police… read more

[Benjamins Current Topics, 118] 2021. v, 151 pp.

The Politics of Person Reference: Third-person forms in English, German, and French

Naomi Truan

This book, the first systematic exploration of the third person in English, German, and French, takes a fresh look at person reference within the realm of political discourse. By focusing on the newly refined speech role of the target, attention is given to the continuity between second and third… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 320] 2021. xvii, 279 pp.

Politics, Ethnicity and the Postcolonial Nation: A critical analysis of political discourse in the Caribbean

Eleonora Esposito

This book explores the politics of ethnicity and nationalism in the Caribbean from a critical discourse-analytical perspective. Focusing on political communication in Trinidad and Tobago, it offers unique socio-political insights into one of the most complex and diverse countries of the Archipelago. read more

[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 93] 2021. xvii, 207 pp.

Pragmatic Markers and Peripheries

Edited by Daniël Van Olmen and Jolanta Šinkūnienė

The relation between pragmatic markers and the peripheries of clauses, utterances and/or turns has been a topic of linguistic interest for the last few decades. Many issues continue to be debated, however, such as “how should the notion of periphery be defined?”, “to what extent do pragmatic… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 325] 2021. vi, 452 pp.

Pragmatics of Accents

Edited by Gaëlle Planchenault and Livia Poljak

What impact do accents have on our lives as we interact with one another? Are accents more than simple sets of phonetic features that allow us to differentiate from one dialect, variety or style, to the other? What power relationships are at work when we speak with what those around us perceive as… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 327] 2021. vii, 266 pp.

The Pragmatics of Adaptability

Edited by Daniel N. Silva and Jacob L. Mey

Humans are adaptive beings. Gradually, we have produced the fundamental capacities for our cooperation, recognition of intentions, and interaction which led to the development of language and culture. The present collective volume builds on an orientation to pragmatics as the sustained and… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 319] 2021. vi, 358 pp.

Pragmatics, Humour and the Internet

Edited by Francisco Yus

Special issue of Internet Pragmatics 4:1 (2021) v, 175 pp.

Questioning and Answering Practices across Contexts and Cultures

Edited by Cornelia Ilie

This book showcases innovative research about the multi-functional and dynamic interrelatedness of questioning and answering practices in institution- and culture-specific interactions ranging from under-explored to extensively researched ones: South-Korean talk shows, Japanese interviews, Chinese… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 323] 2021. vi, 316 pp.

The Sociopragmatics of Stance: Community, language, and the witness depositions from the Salem witch trials

Peter J. Grund

Anchored in historical pragmatics, historical sociolinguistics, and corpus linguistics, this book weaves together a powerful narrative of the significance of stance marking in the history of English. Focusing on the community of practice that developed during the witch trials in Salem… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 329] 2021. ix, 246 pp.

Style and Reader Response: Minds, media, methods

Edited by Alice Bell, Sam Browse, Alison Gibbons and David Peplow

Style and Reader Response: Minds, media, methods profiles the diversity of theoretical and methodological approaches in reception-oriented research in stylistics. Collectively, the chapters investigate how real readers, players, audiences, and viewers respond to, experience, and interpret texts.… read more

[Linguistic Approaches to Literature, 36] 2021. vii, 236 pp.

Understanding Chinese Social Media

Edited by Sumin Zhao and Chaoqun Xie

Special issue of Internet Pragmatics 4:2 (2021) v, 146 pp.

(Im)politeness and Moral Order in Online Interactions

Edited by Chaoqun Xie

(Im)politeness and Moral Order in Online Interactions presents a timely response to the ‘moral turn’ in (im)politeness studies. This volume, presented by a roster of prominent figures in the field, documents and showcases the complexity of (im)politeness as social practice by focusing on the… read more

[Benjamins Current Topics, 107] 2020. v, 177 pp.

Analysing Chinese Language and Discourse across Layers and Genres

Edited by Wei Wang

Aspirational and expanding, this book examines contemporary Chinese language and discourse across a spectrum of linguistic layers and genres in diverse social contexts. Addressing issues ranging from the usual focus on language per se, or language use in reaction to the immediate settings, to the… read more

[Studies in Chinese Language and Discourse, 13] 2020. xiii, 233 pp.

Bonding through Context: Language and interactional alignment in Japanese situated discourse

Edited by Risako Ide and Kaori Hata

This book examines the linguistic and interactional mechanisms through which people bond or feel bonded with one another by analyzing situated discourse in Japanese contexts. The term “bonding” points to the sense of co-presence, belonging, and alignment with others as well as with the space of… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 314] 2020. vii, 291 pp.

Complimenting Behavior and (Self-)Praise across Social Media: New contexts and new insights

Edited by María Elena Placencia and Zohreh R. Eslami

The present volume focuses on complimenting behavior, including the awarding of (self-)praise, as manifested on social media. These commonplace activities have been found to fulfil a wide range of functions in face-to-face interaction, discoursal and relational amongst others. However, even though… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 313] 2020. xi, 315 pp. + index

The Discourse of Indirectness: Cues, voices and functions

Edited by Zohar Livnat, Pnina Shukrun-Nagar and Galia Hirsch

Indirectness has been a key concept in pragmatic research for over four decades, however the notion as a technical term does not have an agreed-upon definition and remains vague and ambiguous. In this collection, indirectness is examined as a way of communicating meaning that is inferred from… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 316] 2020. viii, 257 pp.

Discourses on the Edges of Life

Edited by Vicent Salvador †, Adéla Kotátková and Ignasi Clemente

Death inhabits our collective imaginary, even though sometimes, like a squatter, it hides discretely in order to avoid conflicts. It is undoubtedly a multi-faceted subject of study, which requires consideration from an interdisciplinary perspective. This book deals with this phenomenon, and more… read more

[IVITRA Research in Linguistics and Literature, 26] 2020. vi, 196 pp.

Discursive Navigation of Employable Identities in the Narratives of Former Refugees

Emily Greenbank

Incorporating both interview and workplace data, this book examines the discursive and social challenges that former refugees encounter as they navigate successes and failures in the New Zealand labour market. Over five chapters of microlevel discourse analysis – drawing on Bamberg &… read more

[Studies in Narrative, 27] 2020. x, 228 pp.

Drawing Attention to Metaphor: Case studies across time periods, cultures and modalities

Edited by Camilla Di Biase-Dyson and Markus Egg

The communicative act of drawing attention to metaphor is a relatively recent topic in metaphor studies and one that has remained contentious from a cognitive perspective. This book brings philologists of ancient languages together with metaphor experts from several modalities to interrogate… read more

[Figurative Thought and Language, 5] 2020. v, 265 pp.

The Dynamics of Text and Framing Phenomena: Historical approaches to paratext and metadiscourse in English

Edited by Matti Peikola and Birte Bös

This volume explores the complex relations of texts and their contextualising elements, drawing particularly on the notions of paratext, metadiscourse and framing. It aims at developing a more comprehensive historical understanding of these phenomena, covering a wide time span, from Old English to… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 317] 2020. vii, 313 pp.

Errors and Interaction: A cognitive ethnography of emergency medicine

Sarah Bro Trasmundi

Trasmundi combines her background as a cognitive ethnographer with theory of radical embodied cognition and interaction to investigate how healthcare practitioners manage cognitive events in patient treatment and diagnosing that often lead to human errors. This interdisciplinary focus emphasises… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 309] 2020. xii, 246 pp.

Fixed Expressions: Building language structure and social action

Edited by Ritva Laury and Tsuyoshi Ono

This volume concerns the structure and use of fixed expressions in a range of typologically, genetically and areally distinct languages. The chapters consider the use contexts of fixed expressions, at the same time taking seriously the need to account for their structural aspects. Formulaicity is… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 315] 2020. v, 238 pp.

Handbook of Pragmatics: 23rd Annual Installment

Edited by Jan-Ola Östman and Jef Verschueren

This encyclopaedia of one of the major fields of language studies is a continuously updated source of state-of-the-art information for anyone interested in language use. The IPrA Handbook of Pragmatics provides easy access – for scholars with widely divergent backgrounds but with convergent… read more

[Handbook of Pragmatics, 23] 2020. xiii, 272 pp.

Language Policy in Business: Discourse, ideology and practice

Elisabeth Barakos

Language Policy in Business: Discourse, ideology and practice provides a critical sociolinguistic and discursive understanding of language policy in a minority language context. Focusing on Welsh-English bilingualism in private sector businesses in Wales, the book unpacks the circulating… read more

[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 89] 2020. xv, 195 pp.

The Language of Crisis: Metaphors, frames and discourses

Edited by Mimi Huang and Lise-Lotte Holmgreen

In times of crisis, how do people conceptualise and communicate their experiences through different forms and channels? How can original research in cognitive linguistics, discourse analysis and crisis studies advance our understanding of the ways in which we interact with and communicate about… read more

[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 87] 2020. viii, 309 pp.

Literary Communication as Dialogue: Responsibilities and pleasures in post-postmodern times. Selected papers 2003-2020

Roger D. Sell

As traced by Roger D. Sell, literary communication is a process of community-making. As long as literary authors and those responding to them respect each other’s human autonomy, literature flourishes as an enjoyable, though often challenging mode of interaction that is truly dialogical in spirit.… read more

[FILLM Studies in Languages and Literatures, 14] 2020. xii, 425 pp.

Manners, Norms and Transgressions in the History of English: Literary and linguistic approaches

Edited by Andreas H. Jucker and Irma Taavitsainen

This volume traces the multifaceted concept of manners in the history of English from the late medieval through the early and late modern periods right up to the present day. It focuses in particular on transgressions of manners and norms of behaviour as an analytical tool to shed light on the… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 312] 2020. viii, 298 pp.

Media, Migration and Human Rights: Discourse and Resistance in the Context of the Erosion of Liberal Norms

Edited by Ekaterina Balabanova and Ruxandra Trandafoiu

Special issue of Journal of Language and Politics 19:3 (2020) vi, 184 pp.

The Mediated Communication of Gender and Sexuality in Contemporary Politics

Edited by Angela Smith and Michael Higgins

Special issue of Journal of Language and Politics 19:1 (2020) vi, 200 pp.

Metasex – The Discourse of Intimacy and Transgression

Anne Storch and Nico Nassenstein

This study focuses on the language around sexuality and discourses about sex, labeled by the authors as metasex, from a broad crosslinguistic perspective. Unlike many existing studies on sexting that predominantly take into account the linguistic practices of teenagers often located in the Global… read more

[Culture and Language Use, 22] 2020. ix, 132 pp.

Mobilizing Others: Grammar and lexis within larger activities

Edited by Carmen Taleghani-Nikazm, Emma Betz and Peter Golato

Requesting, recruitment, and other ways of mobilizing others to act have garnered much interest in Conversation Analysis and Interactional Linguistics. This volume takes a holistic perspective on the practices that we use to get others to act either with us, or for us. It argues for a more explicit… read more

[Studies in Language and Social Interaction, 33] 2020. vi, 285 pp.

Performing Metaphoric Creativity across Modes and Contexts

Edited by Laura Hidalgo-Downing and Blanca Kraljevic Mujic

The creative potentiality of metaphor is one of the central themes in research on creativity. The present volume offers a space for the interdisciplinary discussion of the relationship between metaphor and creativity by focusing on (re)contextualization across modes and socio-cultural contexts and… read more

[Figurative Thought and Language, 7] 2020. xi, 346 pp.

Politeness in Professional Contexts

Edited by Dawn Archer, Karen Grainger and Piotr Jagodziński

Much like in everyday life, politeness is key to the smooth running of relationships and interactions. Professional contexts, however, tend to be characterised by a plethora of behaviours that may be specific to that context. They include ‘polite’ behaviours, ‘impolite’ behaviours and behaviours… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 311] 2020. vi, 326 pp.

The Pragmatics of Internet Memes

Edited by Chaoqun Xie

Special issue of Internet Pragmatics 3:2 (2020) v, 193 pp.

Producing Figurative Expression: Theoretical, experimental and practical perspectives

Edited by John Barnden and Andrew Gargett

This collection contains a selection of recent work on people’s production of figurative language (metaphoric, ironic, metonymic, hyperbolic, ...) and similarly of figurative expression in visual media and artefact design. The articles illuminate issues such as why and under what circumstances… read more

[Figurative Thought and Language, 10] 2020. viii, 549 pp.

Relevance Theory, Figuration, and Continuity in Pragmatics

Edited by Agnieszka Piskorska

The chapters in this volume apply the methodology of relevance theory to develop accounts of various pragmatic phenomena which can be associated with the broadly conceived notion of style. Some of them are devoted to central cases of figurative language (metaphor, metonymy, puns, irony) while… read more

[Figurative Thought and Language, 8] 2020. vii, 357 pp.

Speaking for the Nation: Intellectuals and nation-building in the post-Yugoslav space

Federico Giulio Sicurella

The book explores the nexus of intellectual activity and nation-building from a critical discourse-analytical perspective. By examining how public intellectuals from Serbia, Croatia, and Bosnia and Herzegovina commented on key national events in editorials and opinion pieces, it offers unique… read more

[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 88] 2020. xi, 236 pp.

Understanding Conversational Joking: A cognitive-pragmatic study based on Russian interactions

Nadine Thielemann

This book examines the diverse forms of conversational humor with the help of examples drawn from casual interactions among Russian speakers. It argues that neither an exclusively discourse-analytic perspective on the phenomenon nor an exclusively cognitive one can adequately account for… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 310] 2020. x, 287 pp.

The Construction of ‘Ordinariness’ across Media Genres

Edited by Anita Fetzer and Elda Weizman

Departing from the premise that ‘being ordinary’ is brought into the discourse and brought out in the discourse and is thus an interactional achievement, the contributions to this edited volume investigate its construction, reconstruction and deconstruction in media discourse. Ordinariness is… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 307] 2019. vi, 297 pp.

Conversational Humour and (Im)politeness: A pragmatic analysis of social interaction

Valeria Sinkeviciute

Conversational Humour and (Im)politeness is the first systematic study that offers a socio-pragmatic perspective on humorous practices such as teasing, mockery and taking the piss and their relation to (im)politeness. Analysing data from corpora, reality television and interviews in Australian and… read more

[Topics in Humor Research, 8] 2019. xi, 274 pp.

Corpus-based Research on Variation in English Legal Discourse

Edited by Teresa Fanego and Paula Rodríguez-Puente

This volume provides a comprehensive overview of the research carried out over the past thirty years in the vast field of legal discourse. The focus is on how such research has been influenced and shaped by developments in corpus linguistics and register analysis, and by the emergence from the mid… read more

[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 91] 2019. vii, 294 pp.

Current Studies in Chinese Language and Discourse: Global context and diverse perspectives

Edited by Yun Xiao and Linda Tsung

This volume features a discourse empirical orientation from diverse perspectives and various methodologies, in which narratives, interviews, surveys, and large-scale databases or self-created written and spoken corpora are employed and analyzed to gain a better understanding of new developments and… read more

[Studies in Chinese Language and Discourse, 10] 2019. xi, 298 pp.

Discourse and Political Culture: The language of the Third Way in Germany and the UK

Michael Kranert

This book presents a new approach to comparative politico-linguistic discourse analysis. It takes a transdisciplinary stance and combines analytical tools from linguistic discourse analysis (keywords, metaphors, argumentation, genre) and political science (political culture, comparative politics,… read more

[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 86] 2019. xviii, 298 pp.

Emotion in Discourse

Edited by J. Lachlan Mackenzie and Laura Alba-Juez

Interest in human emotion no longer equates to unscientific speculation. 21st-century humanities scholars are paying serious attention to our capacity to express emotions and giving rigorous explanations of affect in language. We are unquestionably witnessing an ‘emotional turn’ not only in… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 302] 2019. xi, 397 pp.

Empirical Studies of the Construction of Discourse

Edited by Óscar Loureda, Inés Recio Fernández, Laura Nadal and Adriana Cruz

This volume assembles eleven articles addressing current concerns in discourse studies from an empirical perspective. Engaging with highly topical issues, they indicate the potential of an approach to the construction of discourse via corpus-based analysis, experimentation, or combined… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 305] 2019. vi, 321 pp.

Engagement in Professional Genres

Edited by Carmen Sancho Guinda

Engagement has turned essential in today’s communication, as professional communities are becoming more specialised and transient, and their audiences more diverse. Promotionalism and competitiveness, in addition, increasingly pervade human activity, and thus engaging readers, listeners and viewers… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 301] 2019. xiv, 373 pp.

Handbook of Pragmatics: 22nd Annual Installment

Edited by Jan-Ola Östman and Jef Verschueren

This encyclopaedia of one of the major fields of language studies is a continuously updated source of state-of-the-art information for anyone interested in language use. The IPrA Handbook of Pragmatics provides easy access – for scholars with widely divergent backgrounds but with convergent… read more

[Handbook of Pragmatics, 22] 2019. xiii, 264 pp.

A Humanizing Literary Pragmatics: Theory, criticism, education. Selected papers 1985-2002

Roger D. Sell

In much of his earlier work Roger D. Sell was shaping literary studies, historical perspectives, and pragmatics into a fluent interdisciplinarity. This enabled him to explore the fundamentally human relationships which develop between literary writers and those who respond to them.Literary writers,… read more

[FILLM Studies in Languages and Literatures, 10] 2019. xii, 396 pp.

Imagining the Peoples of Europe: Populist discourses across the political spectrum

Edited by Jan Zienkowski and Ruth Breeze

The political landscape in Europe is currently going through a phase of rapid change. New actors and movements that claim to represent 'the will of the people' are attracting considerable public attention, with dramatic consequences for election outcomes. This volume explores the new political… read more

[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 83] 2019. vi, 378 pp. | open access

Interactional Studies of Qualitative Research Interviews

Edited by Kathryn Roulston

Methodological accounts of research interviews find that how researchers use this tool in their work varies widely: there are many “ways” of interviewing. This edited collection unpacks the interactional dynamics of qualitative research interviews from studies conducted in education, second… read more

[Not in series, 220] 2019. xviii, 330 pp.

Intertextuality in Practice

Jessica Mason

The books we’ve read, the films we’ve seen, the stories we’ve heard - and just as importantly the ones we haven’t – form an integral part of our identity. Recognising a reference to a text can result in feelings of pleasure, expertise and even smugness; being lost as to a reference’s possible… read more

[Linguistic Approaches to Literature, 33] 2019. xi, 204 pp.

It’s not all about you: New perspectives on address research

Edited by Bettina Kluge and María Irene Moyna

The twenty-first century has seen a surge in cross-linguistic research on forms of address from increasingly diverse and complementary perspectives. The present edited collection is the inaugural volume of Topics in Address Research, a series that aims to reflect that growing interest. The volume… read more

[Topics in Address Research, 1] 2019. vi, 447 pp.

Language Aggression in Public Debates on Immigration

Edited by Andreas Musolff

The global rise in the number, size and complexity of migration flows has not only resulted in an unprecedented flurry of debates and negotiations about how to deal with it through economic, social, and military policies but also in a huge increase in racist and xenophobic language use and… read more

[Benjamins Current Topics, 102] 2019. v, 179 pp.

Metaphor, Nation and Discourse

Edited by Ljiljana Šarić and Mateusz-Milan Stanojević

This edited volume examines how metaphors and related phenomena (metonymies, symbols, cultural models, stereotypes) lead to the discursive construal of a common element that brings the nation together. The central idea is that metaphor use must be questioned to lay bare the processes and the… read more

[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 82] 2019. vii, 356 pp.

Migration and Media: Discourses about identities in crisis

Edited by Lorella Viola and Andreas Musolff

The socio-discursive landscape surrounding the migration debate is characterised by a growing sense of crisis in both personal and collective identities. From this viewpoint, discourses about immigration are also always attempts at reconstructing the threatened ‘home identity’ of the respective… read more

[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 81] 2019. xi, 360 pp. | open access

Politeness in Nineteenth-Century Europe

Edited by Annick Paternoster and Susan Fitzmaurice

This volume explores a pivotal period in European history, the ‘long’ nineteenth century. Politeness scholars have suggested that the nineteenth century heralds a significant transition in the meanings and realisations of politeness, between the Ancien Régime and the contemporary period, with the… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 299] 2019. vii, 288 pp.

Political Discourse in Central, Eastern and Balkan Europe

Edited by Martina Berrocal and Aleksandra Salamurović

This edited volume offers new insights into contemporary political discourses in Slavic speaking countries by focusing on discursive and linguistic means deployed in relevant genres, such as parliamentary discourse, commemorative and presidential speeches, mediated communication, and literal and… read more

[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 84] 2019. vii, 268 pp.

The Politics of Sound: Intersections of Music, Discourse and Political Communication

Edited by Lyndon C.S. Way

Special issue of Journal of Language and Politics 18:4 (2019) vi, 175 pp.

Pragmatics and Literature

Edited by Siobhan Chapman and Billy Clark

Pragmatics and Literature is an important collection of new work by leading practitioners working at the interface between pragmatic theory and literary analysis. The individual studies collected here draw on a variety of theoretical approaches and are concerned with a range of literary genres. All… read more

[Linguistic Approaches to Literature, 35] 2019. xiv, 225 pp.

The Pragmatics of Executive Coaching

Eva-Maria Graf

The Pragmatics of Executive Coaching is the first linguistic monograph on executive coaching, a recent, not fully professionalized, yet booming helping professional format in the organizational realm. The book is positioned at the interface between applied linguistic analysis and the activity of… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 303] 2019. xi, 320 pp.

Reference and Identity in Public Discourses

Edited by Ursula Lutzky and Minna Nevala

This volume explores the concepts of reference and identity in public discourses. Its contributions study discourse-specific reference and labelling patterns, both from a historical and present-day perspective, and discuss their impact on self- and other-representation in the construction of… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 306] 2019. vi, 284 pp.

Rhapsodie: A prosodic and syntactic treebank for spoken French

Edited by Anne Lacheret-Dujour, Sylvain Kahane and Paola Pietrandrea

This monograph describes the development of Rhapsodie, a 33,000-word syntactic and prosodic treebank of spoken French created with the aim of modeling the interface between prosody, syntax and discourse in spoken French. Theoretical foundations and methodological choices are presented and… read more

[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 89] 2019. xv, 396 pp.

Science Communication on the Internet: Old genres meet new genres

Edited by María José Luzón and Carmen Pérez-Llantada

This book examines the expanding world of genres on the Internet to understand issues of science communication today. The book explores how some traditional print genres have become digital, how some genres have evolved into new digital hybrids, and how and why new genres have emerged and are… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 308] 2019. vi, 242 pp.

Skyping the Family: Interpersonal video communication and domestic life

Edited by Richard Harper, Rod Watson and Christian Licoppe

This collection is one of the first in-depth studies of video calling in family and domestic life. It explores the reasons that people themselves provide to explain their video calling, investigates how these reasons make that calling accountable and how, in turn, these reasons come to be things… read more

[Benjamins Current Topics, 103] 2019. v, 177 pp. | open access

The Social Dynamics of Pronominal Systems: A comparative approach

Edited by Paul Bouissac

Personal pronouns have a special status in languages. As indexical tools they are the means by which languages and persons intimately interface with each other within a particular social structure. Pronouns involve more than mere grammatical functions in live communication acts. They variously… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 304] 2019. vi, 320 pp.

Strategic Maneuvering for Political Change: A pragma-dialectical analysis of Egyptian anti-regime columns

Ahmed Abdulhameed Omar

In Strategic Maneuvering for Political Change, the author analyzes five political columns written before 2011 by Al Aswany, a prominent Egyptian novelist, using the lens of the extended pragma-dialectical theory of argumentation. What these texts have in common is the use of narrative, fictional… read more

[Argumentation in Context, 16] 2019. ix, 188 pp.

Surprise at the Intersection of Phenomenology and Linguistics

Edited by Natalie Depraz and Agnès Celle

Surprise is treated as an affect in Aristotelian philosophy as well as in Cartesian philosophy. In experimental psychology, surprise is considered to be an emotion. In phenomenology, it is only addressed indirectly (Husserl, Heidegger, Levinas), with the important exception of Ricœur and Maldiney;… read more

[Consciousness & Emotion Book Series, 11] 2019. vi, 185 pp.

Technology Mediated Service Encounters

Edited by Pilar Garcés-Conejos Blitvich, Lucía Fernández-Amaya and María de la O Hernández-López

The chapters in this collection, authored by renowned scholars, address a gap in the literature by focusing on the consequences that outsourcing, among other globalized economic practices, and remediation by new technologies have had on the service encounters genre (SE). From both a multilingual… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 300] 2019. xi, 247 pp.

Variation in Political Metaphor

Edited by Julien Perrez, Min Reuchamps and Paul H. Thibodeau

The objective of this book is to understand variation in political metaphor. Political metaphors are distinctive and important because they are used to achieve political goals: to persuade, to shape expectations, to realize specific objectives and actions. The analyses in the book go beyond the… read more

[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 85] 2019. vi, 212 pp.

“Self” in Language, Culture, and Cognition

Yanying Lu

This book explores socio-cultural meanings of ‘self’ in the Chinese language through analysing a range of conversations among Chinese immigrants to Australia qualitatively on the topics of individuality, social relationships and collective identity. If language, culture and cognition are major… read more

[Cognitive Linguistic Studies in Cultural Contexts, 10] 2019. xv, 178 pp. | open access

Argumentation in Prime Minister’s Question Time: Accusation of inconsistency in response to criticism

Dima Mohammed

When political actors respond to criticism by pointing at an inconsistency in the critic’s position, a tricky political practice emerges. Turning the criticism back to the critic can be a constructive move that restores coherence, but it may also be a disruptive move that silences the critical… read more

[Argumentation in Context, 15] 2018. xi, 162 pp.

Cognitive Rhetoric: The cognitive poetics of political discourse

Sam Browse

This book sets out a framework for investigating audience responses to political discourse. It starts from the premise that audiences are active participants who bring their own background knowledge and political standpoint to the communicative event. To operationalise this perspective, the volume… read more

[Linguistic Approaches to Literature, 31] 2018. xi, 235 pp.

Compliments and Positive Assessments: Sequential organization in multi-party conversations

Susanne Strubel-Burgdorf

Compliments are among the most widely studied speech acts in pragmatics. The present study takes a new sequential approach by investigating compliments in context, considering compliment form, as part of a Positive Remark continuum, with the respective Response Strategy uttered in response.… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 289] 2018. xv, 253 pp.

The Construction of Discourse as Verbal Interaction

Edited by María de los Ángeles Gómez González and J. Lachlan Mackenzie

This edited volume showcases new work on discourse analysis by big names in the field and promising early-career researchers. Arising from the latest in the series of IWoDA workshops in Santiago de Compostela, it provides novel insights into both the explicit and the implicit characteristics of… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 296] 2018. vi, 304 pp.

Conversation Analysis and Language Alternation: Capturing transitions in the classroom

Edited by Anna Filipi and Numa Markee

This volume brings together researchers in conversation analysis who examine the practice of alternating between English and German, Italian, Spanish, Swedish and Vietnamese in the classroom. The collection shows that language alternation is integral to being and learning to become a bilingual, and… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 295] 2018. ix, 263 pp.

Crisis and the Media: Narratives of crisis across cultural settings and media genres

Edited by Marianna Patrona

How is ‘crisis’, one of the most resonating words in the modern world, related to the mass media? Is crisis independent of the discourse practices of media text and talk? This book is a collection of studies that brings together current research into the ways in which crisis is constructed and… read more

[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 76] 2018. viii, 270 pp.

Democracy and Discriminatory Strategies in Parliamentary Discourse

Edited by Karin Bischof and Cornelia Ilie

Special issue of Journal of Language and Politics 17:5 (2018) vi, 127 pp.

Dialogic Ethics

Edited by Ronald C. Arnett and François Cooren

Dialogic Ethics offers an impressionistic picture of the diversity of perspectives on this topic. Daily we witness local, regional, national, and international disputes, each propelled by contention over what is and should be the good propelling communicative direction and action. Communication… read more

[Dialogue Studies, 30] 2018. xiv, 286 pp.

Discourse Markers and (Dis)fluency: Forms and functions across languages and registers

Ludivine Crible

Spoken language is characterized by the occurrence of linguistic devices such as discourse markers (e.g. so, well, you know, I mean) and other so-called “disfluent” phenomena, which reflect the temporal nature of the cognitive mechanisms underlying speech production and comprehension. The purpose… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 286] 2018. xvi, 252 pp.

The Discourse of Online Sportscasting: Constructing meaning and interaction in live text commentary

Jan Chovanec

This book offers the first comprehensive linguistic analysis of live text commentary, one of the most innovative online genres of modern news media. The study focuses on written sports commentaries in online newspapers that enable partial real-time audience involvement in the media text. Adopting… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 297] 2018. xxii, 303 pp.

The Discursive Construction of Identities On- and Offline: Personal - group - collective

Edited by Birte Bös, Sonja Kleinke, Sandra Mollin and Nuria Hernández

This volume explores linguistic identity construction across online and offline contexts. The contributors focus on ‘clusivity’ as an overarching aspect and offer a multifaceted operationalisation of the linguistic processes of identity construction. The studies address three major strands of human… read more

[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 78] 2018. vii, 271 pp. | open access

Doing Politics: Discursivity, performativity and mediation in political discourse

Edited by Michael Kranert and Geraldine Horan

This edited volume explores the discursive, performative and mediated dimensions of contemporary political discourse. The strengths of the volume are manifold: it contains cutting edge interdisciplinary research on political discourses by international authors (UK, USA, Italy, Germany, Austria,… read more

[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 80] 2018. vii, 418 pp.

The Dynamics of Interactional Humor: Creating and negotiating humor in everyday encounters

Edited by Villy Tsakona and Jan Chovanec

This book deals with the construction of diverse forms of humor in everyday oral, written, and mediatized interactions. It sheds light on the differences and, most importantly, the similarities in the production of interactional humor in face-to-face and various technology-mediated forms of… read more

[Topics in Humor Research, 7] 2018. vi, 316 pp.

Eye-tracking in Interaction: Studies on the role of eye gaze in dialogue

Edited by Geert Brône and Bert Oben

This volume presents a state-of-the-art of current research on the role of eye gaze in different types of interaction, including human-human and human-computer interaction. Approaching the phenomenon from different disciplinary and methodological angles, the chapters in the volume are united… read more

[Advances in Interaction Studies, 10] 2018. vi, 329 pp.

From Pragmatics to Dialogue

Edited by Edda Weigand and István Kecskés

This volume aims at building bridges from pragmatics to dialogue and overcoming the gap between two ‘circles’ which have cut themselves off from each other in recent decades even if both addressed the same object, ‘language use’. Pragmatics means the study of natural language use. There is however… read more

[Dialogue Studies, 31] 2018. v, 222 pp.

Handbook of Pragmatics: 21st Annual Installment

Edited by Jan-Ola Östman and Jef Verschueren

This encyclopaedia of one of the major fields of language studies is a continuously updated source of state-of-the-art information for anyone interested in language use. The IPrA Handbook of Pragmatics provides easy access — for scholars with widely divergent backgrounds but with convergent… read more

[Handbook of Pragmatics, 21] 2018. xi, 285 pp.

Historical Pragmatics of Controversies: Case studies from 1600 to 1800

Gerd Fritz, Thomas Gloning and Juliane Glüer

The book gives an introduction to the new research field of Historical Pragmatics of Controversies and provides seven case studies (from 1609 to 1796) on controversies in the fields of astronomy/astrology, medicine, chemistry, philosophy, and theology. The protagonists of these controversies… read more

[Controversies, 14] 2018. vii, 346 pp.

How to Do Corpus Pragmatics on Pragmatically Annotated Data: Speech acts and beyond

Martin Weisser

This book introduces a methodology and research tool (DART) that make it possible to carry out advanced corpus pragmatics research using dialogue corpora enriched with pragmatics-relevant annotations. It first explores the general use of spoken corpora for pragmatics research, as well as issues… read more

[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 84] 2018. xiv, 294 pp.

Introduction to Discourse Studies: New edition

Jan Renkema and Christoph Schubert

This new edition of Introduction to Discourse Studies (IDS) is a thoroughly revised and updated version of this successful textbook, which has been published in four languages and has become a must-read for anyone interested in the analysis of texts and discourses. Supported by an international… read more

[Not in series, 219] 2018. xv, 453 pp.

Legal Pragmatics

Edited by Dennis Kurzon and Barbara Kryk-Kastovsky

The volume Legal Pragmatics is a contribution to the interface between language and law. It looks at how the principles of language use can be beneficial to clarifying legal issues, its twelve chapters (together with the Introduction) offering a wide spectrum of the latest approaches to the area of… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 288] 2018. viii, 278 pp.

Linguistic Foundations of Narration in Spoken and Sign Languages

Edited by Annika Hübl and Markus Steinbach

In recent years, the focus of linguistic research has shifted from sentence to larger units such as text and discourse and accordingly from syntax to semantics and pragmatics. This has led to the development and application of corresponding discourse semantic and pragmatic theories such as, for… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 247] 2018. xii, 311 pp.

Offers and Offer Refusals: A postcolonial pragmatics perspective on World Englishes

Eric A. Anchimbe

This study offers a pragmatic dimension to World Englishes research. It is particularly timely because pragmatics has generally been understudied in past research on World Englishes, especially postcolonial Englishes. Apart from drawing attention to the paucity of research, the book also… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 298] 2018. xix, 316 pp.

Perspectives on Evidentiality in Spanish: Explorations across genres

Edited by Carolina Figueras Bates and Adrián Cabedo

Evidentiality in communication is better investigated in delimited and recognizable contexts where the multiple levels of meaning in interactional practices are manifested. Taking this viewpoint, the present volume explores the interrelations between evidentials and textual genre in Spanish.… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 290] 2018. vi, 254 pp.

Persuasion in Public Discourse: Cognitive and functional perspectives

Edited by Jana Pelclová and Wei-lun Lu

This book approaches persuasion in public discourse as a rhetorical phenomenon that enables the persuader to appeal to the addressee’s intellectual and emotional capacities in a competing public environment. The aim is to investigate persuasive strategies from the overlapping perspectives of… read more

[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 79] 2018. vi, 334 pp. | open access

Positioning the Self and Others: Linguistic perspectives

Edited by Kate Beeching, Chiara Ghezzi and Piera Molinelli

Though positioning has been addressed in social psychology and in identity construction, less attention has been paid to the specific linguistic markers which are drawn upon in discourse to position the self and other(s). This volume focusses on address terms, pragmatic markers, code… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 292] 2018. vi, 316 pp.

Pragmatic Transfer and Development: Evidence from EFL learners in China

Wei Li

Email has become a ubiquitous medium of communication. It is used amongst people from the same speech community, but also between people from different language and cultural backgrounds. When people communicate, they tend to follow rules of speaking in their native language, termed by scholars as… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 287] 2018. xv, 268 pp.

Pragmatics and its Interfaces

Edited by Cornelia Ilie and Neal R. Norrick

This volume offers state-of-the-art overviews of the cross-disciplinary role and impact of Pragmatics in relation to several areas of study that it interfaces with. Pragmatics has contributed significant insights to a range of disciplines, just as these disciplines have contributed to it. Borrowing… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 294] 2018. vi, 313 pp.

The Pragmatics of Irony and Banter

Edited by Manuel Jobert and Sandrine Sorlin

The Pragmatics of Irony and Banter is the first book-length study analysing irony and banter together. This approach, inherited from Geoffrey Leech’s research, implies that the two notions are intrinsically related. In this thought-provoking volume, the various contributors (linguists,… read more

[Linguistic Approaches to Literature, 30] 2018. vi, 221 pp.

Pragmatics of Japanese: Perspectives on grammar, interaction and culture

Edited by Mutsuko Endo Hudson, Yoshiko Matsumoto and Junko Mori

Bringing together the latest studies on Japanese pragmatics, this edited volume showcases the breadth of research conducted in this ever-expanding, interdisciplinary field, with the introductory chapter providing a useful summary of developments in the field in the past decades. The twelve chapters… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 285] 2018. xv, 311 pp.

The Pragmatics of Sensitive Activities in Institutional Discourse

Edited by Maj-Britt Mosegaard Hansen and Rosina Márquez Reiter

This volume examines the way participants orient to aspects of their interactions with others as interpersonally sensitive across an array of languages and contemporary institutional settings. The individual chapters address interactional episodes where the participants signal that elements of the… read more

[Benjamins Current Topics, 96] 2018. v, 194 pp.

Re/constructing Politics Through Social & Online Media: Discourses, ideologies, and mediated political practices

Edited by Michał Krzyżanowski and Joshua A. Tucker

Special issue of Journal of Language and Politics 17:2 (2018) vi, 202 pp.

Socioeconomic Pragmatic Variation: Speech acts and address forms in context

Larssyn Staley

On a regular basis people encounter unfamiliar uses of pragmatic features, such as offers or requests with differing levels of directness or terms of address showing differing amounts of solidarity or deference. Variational pragmatics is the study of such uses, according to region, gender, age,… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 291] 2018. xiv, 201 pp.

Tag Questions in Conversation: A typology of their interactional and stance meanings

Ditte Kimps

This monograph deals with variable tag questions. These are utterances with a variable interrogative tag, like It's peculiar writing, isn't it, and the semi-variable tag innit, such as Nice, innit. The aim is to provide a corpus-based, comprehensive semantic-pragmatic typology of British English… read more

[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 83] 2018. xviii, 250 pp.

Threatening in English: A mixed method approach

Julia Muschalik

Threatening is among the less pleasant “things we do with words”, but, together with other conflictive speech acts, it seems to play a central role in communication. Yet, little is still known about how and when exactly speakers threaten. The present volume addresses this void by giving an in-depth… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 284] 2018. xiv, 246 pp.

Time in Embodied Interaction: Synchronicity and sequentiality of multimodal resources

Edited by Arnulf Deppermann and Jürgen Streeck

This is the first book dedicated to the study of the complexities that arise in embodied interaction from the multiplicity of time-scales on which its component processes unfold. It shows in microscopic detail how people synchronize and sequence modal resources such as talk, gaze, gesture, and… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 293] 2018. vi, 354 pp.

Words of Crisis as Words of Power: The jeremiad in American presidential speeches

Marta Neüff

The volume explores crisis rhetoric in contemporary U.S. American presidential speechmaking. Rhetorical leadership constitutes an inherent feature of the modern presidency. Particularly during times of critical events, the president is expected to react and address the nation. However, the power of… read more

[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 77] 2018. xiii, 401 pp.

Advances in Swearing Research: New languages and new contexts

Edited by Kristy Beers Fägersten and Karyn Stapleton

Any behavior that arouses, as swearing does, controversy, disagreement, disdain, shock, and indignation as often as it imbues passion, sincerity, intimacy, solidarity, and jocularity should be an obvious target of in-depth scholarship. Rigorous, scholarly investigation of the practice of swearing… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 282] 2017. vi, 266 pp.

Anti-racist Discourse on Muslims in the Australian Parliament

Jennifer E. Cheng

Anti-racist Discourse on Muslims in the Australian Parliament examines anti-racist discourse in contemporary Australian politics, in particular, how politicians contest and challenge racism against a minority group that does not constitute a traditional ‘race’. Using critical discourse analysis,… read more

[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 72] 2017. xxiv, 204 pp.

Argumentation across Communities of Practice: Multi-disciplinary perspectives

Edited by Cornelia Ilie and Giuliana Garzone

Featuring multidisciplinary and transcultural investigations, this volume showcases state-of-the-art scholarship about the impact of argumentation-based discourses and field-specific argumentation practices in a wide range of communities of practice belonging to the media, social, legal and… read more

[Argumentation in Context, 10] 2017. vi, 345 pp.

Argumentation in the Newsroom

Marta Zampa

The news we see daily is selected from among alternatives by journalists. Argumentation in the Newsroom uses ethnographic data from Swiss television and print newsrooms to shed light on how journalists make decisions regarding the selection and presentation of news items in their daily professional… read more

[Argumentation in Context, 13] 2017. xiii, 211 pp.

Contemporary Discourses of Hate and Radicalism across Space and Genres

Edited by Monika Kopytowska

This unique volume brings together various academic voices and critical reflections on discursive manifestations of hate and radicalism in contemporary public discourses. The authors venture into an array of socio-political contexts and public spaces, providing a compelling overview of similarities… read more

[Benjamins Current Topics, 93] 2017. vi, 279 pp.

Contextualizing Pragma-Dialectics

Edited by Frans H. van Eemeren and Peng Wu

Contextualizing Pragma-Dialectics contains a selection of 18 article reporting on research conducted in the past decade in which the institutional context in which argumentative discourse takes place is systematically taken into account. Some articles provide relevant theoretical backgrounds, other… read more

[Argumentation in Context, 12] 2017. ix, 367 pp.

Conversational structures of Alto Perené (Arawak) of Peru

Elena Mihas

Drawing on extensive fieldwork in the research community, the book is a focused exploration of discourse patterns of Alto Perené Arawak, with emphasis on conversational structures. The book’s methodological scaffold is based on proposals and insights from multiple research fields, such as… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 181] 2017. xxi, 343 pp.

Cultural Keywords in Discourse

Edited by Carsten Levisen and Sophia Waters

Cultural keywords are words around which whole discourses are organised. They are culturally revealing, difficult to translate and semantically diverse. They capture how speakers have paid attention to the worlds they live in and embody socially recognised ways of thinking and feeling. The book… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 277] 2017. ix, 249 pp.

Current Issues in Intercultural Pragmatics

Edited by István Kecskés and Stavros Assimakopoulos

Having been established as a field in its own right for the last decade, intercultural pragmatics is increasingly being recognized as an important area of research among scholars working in pragmatics. The present volume is a collection of selected papers from the 6th International Conference on… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 274] 2017. vii, 369 pp.

Developing New Identities in Social Conflicts: Constructivist perspectives

Edited by Esperanza Morales-López and Alan Floyd

Conflicts are inherent to human society, but most of them do not concern us directly as participants or eyewitnesses. How we see social conflicts depends on how they are presented to us.This volume gathers together writings by contemporary specialists in different fields, from different… read more

[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 71] 2017. xiii, 293 pp.

Diachronic Developments in English News Discourse

Edited by Minna Palander-Collin, Maura Ratia and Irma Taavitsainen

The history of English news discourse is characterised by intriguing multilevel developments, and the present cannot be separated from them. For example, audience engagement is by no means an invention of the digital age. This collection highlights major topics that range from newspaper genres like… read more

[Advances in Historical Sociolinguistics, 6] 2017. vii, 301 pp.

Dialogue across Media

Edited by Jarmila Mildorf and Bronwen Thomas

With chapters on social media, videogames and human-machine communication, Dialogue across Media provides a comprehensive overview of the role of dialogue in contemporary media. Drawing on the expertise of scholars and practitioners from multiple fields and disciplines, including screenwriters,… read more

[Dialogue Studies, 28] 2017. ix, 296 pp.

Discourse and Identity Formation: Parliamentary debates in Bahrain

Lamya Alkooheji and Chitra Sinha

The book explores eleven debates held at the Bahraini Council of Representatives (or the Parliament) over 2007-2010 to comprehend how parliamentary discourse contributes towards identity formation within Bahraini society. Within the framework of critical discourse studies, the book traces the… read more

[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 73] 2017. xxii, 285 pp.

The Discursive Construction of Class and Lifestyle: Celebrity chef cookbooks in post-socialist Slovenia

Ana Tominc

This book discusses transformations in the construction of culinary taste, lifestyle and class through cookbook language style in post-socialist Slovenia. Using a critical discourse studies approach it demonstrates how the representation of culinary advice in standard and celebrity cookbooks has… read more

[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 75] 2017. xxi, 177 pp.

Enabling Human Conduct: Studies of talk-in-interaction in honor of Emanuel A. Schegloff

Edited by Geoffrey Raymond, Gene H. Lerner and John Heritage

This collection offers a multifaceted view of the life, research and impact of Emanuel A. Schegloff, the co-originator, with Harvey Sacks and Gail Jefferson, of Conversation Analysis (or CA), and its leading contemporary authority. The first section introduces Schegloff’s life and work, and, using… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 273] 2017. vi, 359 pp.

Epistemic Stance in Dialogue: Knowing, Unknowing, Believing

Andrzej Zuczkowski, Ramona Bongelli and Ilaria Riccioni

This volume presents a theoretical and practical model for analysing epistemic stance in dialogues, i.e. the positions both epistemic (commitment) and evidential (source of information) which speakers take in the here and now of communication with regard to the information they are conveying and… read more

[Dialogue Studies, 29] 2017. xiii, 311 pp.

Evidentiality Revisited: Cognitive grammar, functional and discourse-pragmatic perspectives

Edited by Juana I. Marín-Arrese, Gerda Haßler and Marta Carretero

Evidentiality Revisited focuses on semantic-pragmatic based frameworks for the study of evidentials and evidential strategies in European languages (Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Lithuanian, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish). The book also presents discourse-pragmatic studies, with… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 271] 2017. vi, 320 pp.

Expressing and Describing Surprise

Edited by Agnès Celle and Laure Lansari

Among emotions, surprise has been extensively studied in psychology. In linguistics, surprise, like other emotions, has mainly been studied through the syntactic patterns involving surprise lexemes. However, little has been done so far to correlate the reaction of surprise investigated in… read more

[Benjamins Current Topics, 92] 2017. v, 246 pp.

Focus on Additivity: Adverbial modifiers in Romance, Germanic and Slavic languages

Edited by Anna-Maria De Cesare and Cecilia Andorno

The present volume is centered on the notional domain of additivity. Many linguistic phenomena are based on additivity (i.e. are incremental) and additive relations are a mechanism that underlies a wide array of text types. Specifically, the present volume is centered on the class of function words… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 278] 2017. vi, 334 pp.

Greece in Crisis: Combining critical discourse and corpus linguistics perspectives

Edited by Ourania Hatzidaki and Dionysis Goutsos

Since its onset, the Greek crisis has given rise to an abundance of relevant text and talk. This volume offers an insider’s view of the discursive manifestations of the crisis, focusing on discourses in the Greek language and by Greek social actors. The contributions investigate the diverse ways in… read more

[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 70] 2017. viii, 471 pp.

The Idea of a Text and the Nature of Textual Meaning

Anders Pettersson

In his account of text and textual meaning, Pettersson demonstrates that a text as commonly conceived is not only a verbal structure but also a physical entity, two kinds of phenomena which do not in fact add up to a unitary object. He describes this current notion of text as convenient enough for… read more

[FILLM Studies in Languages and Literatures, 7] 2017. xiii, 196 pp.

Identity Struggles: Evidence from workplaces around the world

Edited by Dorien Van De Mieroop and Stephanie Schnurr

This collection provides a kaleidoscopic view of a range of identity struggles in the workplace context. It features twenty-two case studies that present an eclectic mix of workplaces in different socio-cultural contexts. They include, among others, household workers in Peru and Hong Kong, female… read more

[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 69] 2017. xi, 457 pp.

Imperative Turns at Talk: The design of directives in action

Edited by Marja-Leena Sorjonen, Liisa Raevaara and Elizabeth Couper-Kuhlen

In middle-class Anglo-speaking circles imperatives are considered impolite forms that command another to do something; etiquette manuals recommend avoiding them. The papers in this collection de-construct such lay beliefs. Through the empirical examination of everyday and institutional interaction… read more

[Studies in Language and Social Interaction, 30] 2017. vi, 435 pp.

Implicitness: From lexis to discourse

Edited by Piotr Cap and Marta Dynel

Although the term implicitness is ubiquitous in the pragmatic scholarship, it has rarely constituted the focus of attention per se. This book aims to help crystallize the concept of implicitness by defining its linguistic boundaries, as well as specifying and exploring its different communicative… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 276] 2017. vi, 306 pp.

Involvement and Attitude in Japanese Discourse: Interactive markers

Naomi Ogi

This book addresses the long discussed issue of Japanese interactive markers (traditionally called sentence-final particles) in a new light, and provides the comprehensive linguistic documentation of the interactional functions of seven interactive markers: ne, na, yo, sa, wa, zo and ze. By… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 272] 2017. xi, 232 pp.

Irony in Language Use and Communication

Edited by Angeliki Athanasiadou and Herbert L. Colston

The volume provides original research and analyses of the multi-faceted conceptual and verbal process(es) of irony. Key topics explored include interdisciplinary perspectives and approaches to the study of irony. Collectively, the papers examine irony from psychology, embodiment studies,… read more

[Figurative Thought and Language, 1] 2017. x, 282 pp.

Language and Violence: Pragmatic perspectives

Edited by Daniel N. Silva

This book combines scholarship in pragmatics, linguistic anthropology, and philosophy to address the problem of violence in language. How do words wound? What is the relation between physical and linguistic violence? How do racial invectives, misogynous language, homophobic slurs, among other forms… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 279] 2017. vi, 250 pp.

Mapping Genres, Mapping Culture: Japanese texts in context

Edited by Elizabeth A. Thomson, Motoki Sano and Helen de Silva Joyce

The purpose of this book is to contribute to our understanding of genre and genre variation in the Japanese language in order to bring to consciousness the nature of Japanese culture and the presuppositions, norms and values found within Japanese society. This type of knowledge enables… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 281] 2017. vi, 248 pp.

Multimodal Argumentation and Rhetoric in Media Genres

Edited by Assimakis Tseronis and Charles Forceville

This collection advances the study of context-dependent characteristics of argumentative discourse by examining a variety of media genres in which text and image (and other semiotic modes) combine to create meaning. The chapters have been written by an international group of senior and junior… read more

[Argumentation in Context, 14] 2017. ix, 301 pp.

Narrative Absorption

Edited by Frank Hakemulder, Moniek M. Kuijpers, Ed S. Tan, Katalin Bálint and Miruna M. Doicaru

Narrative Absorption brings together research from the social sciences and Humanities to solve a number of mysteries: Most of us will have had those moments, of being totally absorbed in a book, a movie, or computer game. Typically we do not have any idea about how we ended up in such a state. Nor… read more

[Linguistic Approaches to Literature, 27] 2017. ix, 319 pp.

Pragmatic Approaches to Latin and Ancient Greek

Edited by Camille Denizot and Olga Spevak

Pragmatics forms nowadays an integral part of the description not only of modern languages but also of ancient languages such as Latin and Ancient Greek. This book explores various pragmatic phenomena in these two languages, which are accessible through corpora consisting of a broad range of text… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 190] 2017. xvi, 309 pp.

The Pragmatics of Negation: Negative meanings, uses and discursive functions

Edited by Malin Roitman

Negation is one of the most discussed phenomena within linguistics, on all language levels though it never seems to be exhausted. This operator establishes complex sentence structures and constantly challenges – from a cognitive, syntactical, semantic and morphologic viewpoint – presuppositions on… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 283] 2017. ix, 270 pp.

Prototypical Argumentative Patterns: Exploring the relationship between argumentative discourse and institutional context

Edited by Frans H. van Eemeren

Prototypical Argumentative Patterns reports about a research project started at the University of Amsterdam in 2012. In this project distinctive argumentative patterns have been identified in argumentative discourse in the political, the legal and the medical domain. These patterns consist of… read more

[Argumentation in Context, 11] 2017. ix, 184 pp.

Representing the Other in European Media Discourses

Edited by Jan Chovanec and Katarzyna Molek-Kozakowska

This book deals with the construction of the ‘other’ in European media at a time when the recently expanded EU is facing new political, economic and social challenges. The aim of the book is to document the diverse discursive forms of othering, ranging from differentiation to discrimination, that… read more

[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 74] 2017. vi, 320 pp.

Satire, Humor and the Construction of Identities

Massih Zekavat

Satire, Humor and the Construction of Identities conveys how satire can contribute to the construction of social subjects’ identities. It attempts to provide a theoretical ground for a novel understanding of the relationship between satire and identity by finding their common denominator, namely… read more

[Topics in Humor Research, 6] 2017. vii, 210 pp.

Socio-onomastics: The pragmatics of names

Edited by Terhi Ainiala and Jan-Ola Östman

The volume seeks to establish socio-onomastics as a field of linguistic inquiry not only within sociolinguistics, but also, and in particular, within pragmatics. The linguistic study of names has a very long history, but also a history sometimes fraught with skepticism, and thus often neglected by… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 275] 2017. vi, 231 pp.

Studies in Figurative Thought and Language

Edited by Angeliki Athanasiadou

This volume contains original research and innovative analyses that deepen our understanding of figurative thought and language. The selected papers focus on the multi-faceted aspect of figuration, its function in thought, and its impact on areas of grammar and communication. Key topics explored… read more

[Human Cognitive Processing, 56] 2017. x, 327 pp.

The Conversation Frame: Forms and functions of fictive interaction

Edited by Esther Pascual and Sergeiy Sandler

This edited volume brings together the latest research on fictive interaction, that is the use of the frame of ordinary conversation as a means to structure cognition (talking to oneself), discourse (monologues organized as dialogues), and grammar (“why me? attitude”). This follows prior work on… read more

[Human Cognitive Processing, 55] 2016. xi, 384 pp.

Designing Speech for a Recipient: The roles of partner modeling, alignment and feedback in so-called 'simplified registers'

Kerstin Fischer

This study asks how speakers adjust their speech to their addressees, focusing on the potential roles of cognitive representations such as partner models, automatic processes such as interactive alignment, and social processes such as interactional negotiation. The nature of addressee orientation… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 270] 2016. x, 327 pp.

Discourse Topics

Richard Watson Todd

Discourse topics are a frequently mentioned but rarely operationalised concept in linguistics. Taking a text linguistic approach and defining discourse topics as clusterings of concepts, this book examines and compares methods for investigating topic boundaries, topic identification and topic… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 269] 2016. xv, 314 pp.

Displaying Recipiency: Reactive tokens in Mandarin task-oriented interaction

Jun Xu

This book is intended to address students, researchers and teachers of spoken language. It presents an empirical study of task-oriented language data in which coparticipants display levels of recipiency through reactive tokens. An in-depth investigation of displaying recipiency is of interest… read more

[Studies in Chinese Language and Discourse, 6] 2016. xvii, 198 pp.

Emotion in Multilingual Interaction

Edited by Matthew T. Prior and Gabriele Kasper

This volume brings together for the first time a collection of studies that investigates how multilingual speakers construct emotions in their talk as a joint discursive practice. The contributions draw on the well established, converging traditions of conversation analysis, discursive psychology,… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 266] 2016. vii, 326 pp.

Gender, Language and the Periphery: Grammatical and social gender from the margins

Edited by Julie Abbou and Fabienne H. Baider

This volume aims to demonstrate that the centre/periphery tension allows for a theory of gender understood as a power relationship with implications for a political analysis of language structures, language uses and linguistic resistances. All of the 12 chapters included in this volume work on… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 264] 2016. vi, 411 pp.

A Gender-based Approach to Parliamentary Discourse: The Andalusian Parliament

Edited by Catalina Fuentes Rodríguez and Gloria Álvarez-Benito

Does gender condition politicians’ discourse strategies in parliament? This is the question we try to answer in A Gender-based Approach to Parliamentary Discourse: The Andalusian Parliament. This book, written by experts in the field of discourse analysis, covers key aspects of political discourse… read more

[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 68] 2016. vii, 222 pp. | open access

Genre- and Register-related Discourse Features in Contrast

Edited by Marie-Aude Lefer and Svetlana Vogeleer

This volume contributes to filling a gap in corpus-based research by investigating the ways in which linguistic features vary across genres/registers cross-linguistically. It brings together insightful chapters by leading scholars in the field, fruitfully exploiting genre- or register-controlled… read more

[Benjamins Current Topics, 87] 2016. v, 163 pp.

Handbook of Pragmatics: 2016 Installment

Edited by Jan-Ola Östman and Jef Verschueren

This encyclopaedia of one of the major fields of language studies is a continuously updated source of state-of-the-art information for anyone interested in language use. The IPrA Handbook of Pragmatics provides easy access — for scholars with widely divergent backgrounds but with convergent… read more

[Handbook of Pragmatics, 20] 2016. viii, 220 pp.

Metapragmatics of Humor: Current research trends

Edited by Leonor Ruiz-Gurillo

Metapragmatics of Humor: Current research trends contributes to a new area in the pragmatics of humor: its conception as a metapragmatic ability. The book collects thirteen chapters organized into three parts: Revisions and applications of General Theory of Verbal Humor (GTVH) in a metapragmatic… read more

[IVITRA Research in Linguistics and Literature, 14] 2016. vi, 301 pp.

Mock Politeness in English and Italian: A corpus-assisted metalanguage analysis

Charlotte Taylor

This volume presents an in-depth analysis of mock politeness, bringing together research from different academic fields and investigating a range of first-order metapragmatic labels for mock politeness in British English and Italian. It is the first book-length theorisation and detailed description… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 267] 2016. xiii, 232 pp.

Professional Identity Constructions of Indian Women

Priti Sandhu

This book analyzes the narratives of urban, North Indian women for the diverse ways in which they construct the impact of their medium of education – Hindi, English, or a combination of both – on varied aspects of their professional and personal lives. It examines how participants reinforce or… read more

[Studies in Narrative, 23] 2016. ix, 348 pp.

Redefining Trial by Media: Towards a critical-forensic linguistic interface

Simon Statham

Redefining Trial by Media: Towards a critical-forensic linguistic interface applies a range of linguistic models to recast trial by media not as a sensationalist and infrequent phenomenon, but as a systematic and routine process. Using critical discourse analysis and cognitive linguistic models,… read more

[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 67] 2016. xiii, 325 pp.

Relevance Theory: Recent developments, current challenges and future directions

Edited by Manuel Padilla Cruz

How hearers arrive at intended meaning, which elements encode processing instructions in certain languages, how procedural meaning and prosody interact, how diverse types of utterances are interpreted, how epistemic vigilance mechanisms work, which linguistic elements assist those mechanisms, how a… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 268] 2016. vi, 327 pp.

Requests in American and British English: A contrastive multi-method analysis

Ilka Flöck

This volume encompasses a thorough examination of the use of request strategies on two contrastive dimensions. On the cross-cultural dimension, it compares the use of British and American English request strategies in naturally occurring informal conversations. The conversational data are retrieved… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 265] 2016. xvi, 264 pp.

Handbook of Pragmatics: 2015 Installment

Edited by Jan-Ola Östman and Jef Verschueren

This encyclopaedia of one of the major fields of language studies is a continuously updated source of state-of-the-art information for anyone interested in language use. The IPrA Handbook of Pragmatics provides easy access — for scholars with widely divergent backgrounds but with convergent… read more

[Handbook of Pragmatics, 19] 2015. viii, 240 pp.

Communicating Certainty and Uncertainty in Medical, Supportive and Scientific Contexts

Edited by Andrzej Zuczkowski, Ramona Bongelli, Ilaria Riccioni and Carla Canestrari

This volume is a collection of 18 papers on the communication of certainty and uncertainty. The first part introduces recent theoretical developments and general models on the topic and its relations with modality, subjectivity, inter-subjectivity, epistemicity, evidentiality, hedging, mitigation… read more

[Dialogue Studies, 25] 2014. vii, 413 pp.

Handbook of Pragmatics: 2014 Installment

Edited by Jan-Ola Östman and Jef Verschueren

This encyclopaedia of one of the major fields of language studies is a continuously updated source of state-of-the-art information for anyone interested in language use. The IPrA Handbook of Pragmatics provides easy access — for scholars with widely divergent backgrounds but with convergent… read more

[Handbook of Pragmatics, 18] 2014. viii, 270 pp.

Requesting in Social Interaction

Edited by Paul Drew and Elizabeth Couper-Kuhlen

There has been a remarkable revival of interest in how we conduct social actions in interaction – particularly in requesting, where recent research into video-recorded face-to-face interaction has taken our understanding in novel directions. This collection brings together some of the latest,… read more

[Studies in Language and Social Interaction, 26] 2014. x, 371 pp.

(In)Appropriate Online Behavior: A pragmatic analysis of message board relations

Jenny Arendholz

This descriptive and comprehensive study on the discursive struggle over interpersonal relations in online message boards is located at the fascinating interface of pragmatics and computer-mediated discourse – a research area which has so far not attracted much scientific interest. It sets out to… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 229] 2013. xiii, 285 pp. | open access

Culinary Linguistics: The chef's special

Edited by Cornelia Gerhardt, Maximiliane Frobenius and Susanne Ley

Language and food are universal to humankind. Language accomplishes more than a pure exchange of information, and food caters for more than mere subsistence. Both represent crucial sites for socialization, identity construction, and the everyday fabrication and perception of the world as a… read more

[Culture and Language Use, 10] 2013. xvi, 347 pp. | open access

Speaking of Europe: Approaches to complexity in European political discourse

Edited by Kjersti Fløttum

Recent years have witnessed the European Union struggling to keep Europe together in increasingly difficult economic and political circumstances. Communication within and about European institutions has become more challenging in this perplexing political environment, demonstrating the complex… read more

[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 49] 2013. vii, 191 pp.

Spaces of Polyphony

Edited by Clara Ubaldina Lorda and Patrick Zabalbeascoa

Spaces of Polyphony covers a lot of ground. It echoes the voices of researchers and their informants from many different places and backgrounds. Among the variety of languages under study and methodological approaches there is also a common ground and narrative thread underpinning the polyphonic… read more

[Dialogue Studies, 15] 2012. vii, 299 pp.

Cultural Conceptualisations and Language: Theoretical framework and applications

Farzad Sharifian †

This book presents a multidisciplinary theoretical model of cultural conceptualisations and language. Viewing language as firmly grounded in cultural cognition, the model draws on analytical tools and theoretical advancements in several disciplines, including cognitive linguistics, cognitive… read more

[Cognitive Linguistic Studies in Cultural Contexts, 1] 2011. xvii, 238 pp.

Cyberpragmatics: Internet-mediated communication in context

Francisco Yus

Cyberpragmatics is an analysis of Internet-mediated communication from the perspective of cognitive pragmatics. It addresses a whole range of interactions that can be found on the Net: the web page, chat rooms, instant messaging, social networking sites, 3D virtual worlds, blogs, videoconference,… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 213] 2011. xiv, 353 pp. | open access

Email Hoaxes: Form, function, genre ecology

Theresa Heyd

How genres emerge and evolve on the Internet has become one of the central questions in studies of computer-mediated communication (CMC). This book addresses the issue of genrefication by giving an in-depth analysis of email hoaxes as a candidate for digital genre status. Email hoaxes are deceptive… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 174] 2008. vii, 239 pp.

Handbook of Pragmatics: Manual

Edited by Jef Verschueren, Jan-Ola Östman and Jan Blommaert †

The Handbook of Pragmatics, published under the auspices of the International Pragmatics Association (IPrA), provides easy access, for scholars with widely divergent backgrounds but with converging interests in the use and functioning of language, to the field of linguistic pragmatics, broadly… read more

[Handbook of Pragmatics, M] 1995. xiv, 658 pp.