Table of contents
IntroductionPragmatic explorations of reference and identity in public discourses
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Part I.Public discourses in the history of English
Two miserable creatures or those atrocious criminals? Evaluative reference in the Mannings murder reporting
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The Prince and the Sassenach: Constructing group homogeneity through labels (and anachronisms) in Late Modern times and beyond
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“Right trusty and well-beloved”: The socio-pragmatics of gender, power and stance in sixteenth-century English letters
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Kinship references in the British Parliament, 1800–2005
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Part II.Public discourses in Present-Day English
“Thanks for the donds”: A corpus linguistic analysis of topic-based communities in the comment section of The Guardian
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From ‘country’ to ‘confederation’ – debating terms of reference for the EU on a Wikipedia talk page
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After we #VoteLeave we can #TakeControl: Political campaigning and imagined collectives on Twitter before the Brexit vote
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Part III.Public discourses around the world
To be or not to be … a patient: Identity construction of healthcare professionals and patients in public online diabetes-related interaction
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What’s in a diminutive? The pragmatics of the Spanish diminutive in a televised political interview and its reverberations in online comments
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From Poland to #SanEscobar: On strategies subverting political discourse on Twitter
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