Pragmatics and Society

16 January 2025

Simple language, sophisticated actions: Sequence-initiating actions by novice English users in an educational context

Eric Hauser & Zachary Nanbu

19 December 2024

Deictic shifts and re-contextualization in translation: A case study of English and Persian parallel texts

Masoumeh Diyanati & Mohammad Amouzadeh

28 November 2024

The pragmeme of accommodation in Christian condolence messages in Nigeria

Temitope Michael Ajayi & Temidayo Akinrinlola

21 November 2024

“I am not populist”: Mechanisms for the re-negotiation of category membership on Twitter

Laura Filardo-Llamas, Barbara De Cock, Philippe Hambye & Nadezda Shchinova

When the discourse of strategy meets the discourse of spirituality: A study of the recontextualization of strategy discourse in a Church organization

Pekka Pälli & Esa Lehtinen

Recontextualizing knowledge in academic video publications: A discourse analysis of multimodal science dissemination

María Ángeles Velilla Sánchez

Annelie Ädel & Jan-Ola Östman (eds). 2023. Risk Discourse and Responsibility

Reviewed by Anaïs Augé

Sandrine Sorlin & Tuija Virtanen (Eds.). 2024. The Pragmatics of Hypocrisy

Reviewed by Roni Danziger

28 October 2024

When TCM debate meets Covid-19 discourse: Identifying evidentiality in Chinese social-mediated communication

Yun Pan & Altman Yuzhu Peng

22 October 2024

‘Like to comment on that?’: Student-oriented questions in British and Montenegrin university linguistics lectures

Branka Živković & Milica Vuković-Stamatović | PS 15:6 (2024) pp. 811–838

17 October 2024

“Our group was by far the coolest”: Multimodal team-building practices and English as a lingua franca in a virtual intercultural game

Milene Mendes de Oliveira, Tiina Räisänen & Tuire Oittinen

10 October 2024

You have no right! : The dynamics of power in Colonial Louisiana Spanish

Jeremy King

“Why does he appear so ordinary, but he can be so confident”: A critical discourse analysis of controversial feminism in Chinese stand-up comedian Yang Li’s Talk Show Speeches

Jiayu Wang & Yaru Zhao

12 September 2024

Interveners’ performance of “identity work” in the context of Chinese bystander intervention

Jie Li & Xinren Chen

29 August 2024

Regrounding work in elite discourse: Mediatizing and amplifying entitlement

Crispin Thurlow & Adam Jaworski

Tim Wharton & Louis de Saussure. 2023. Pragmatics and Emotion

Reviewed by Richard J. Whitt | PS 16:1 (2025) pp. 145–149

25 July 2024

Face attributes in interviews with Iranian politicians

Masoumeh Bahman & Veronica Lowe

I am a doctor in your shoes: The empathic strategies employed by Chinese doctors during text-based online medical consultations

Xin Zhao, Yansheng Mao & Yihang Wang

16 July 2024

Political language gaffes and the importance of Hearer’s meaning

Nelly Tincheva

21 June 2024

“Not everything is on the hostess”: Cooperative hospitality among Saudi female friends

Inas I. Almusallam | PS 15:5 (2024) pp. 682–707

Saying “sorry” in online language: A pragmatic analysis of apologies posted on a Chinese online shopping website

Jia Yang

31 May 2024

The humorous effect of routine formulas in Spanish and English televised monologues

Montserrat Mir & Patxi Laskurain-Ibarluzea

13 May 2024

“I never said that”: Negotiating misunderstandings in police interviews

Chi-Hé Elder & Luna Filipović

22 March 2024

Actions of known-answer questions in guided tours: Designing further talk and soliciting participation

Yuri Hosoda & David Aline

8 March 2024

Interactional multimodal metadiscourse in public health posters during the COVID-19 pandemic

Aisha Saadi Al-Subhi

Talking about the deceased in the Jish linguaculture: A semantic and pragmatic analysis

Sandy Habib

Gendered subtle bias in Danish TV election debates

Mie Femø Nielsen

13 February 2024

The World of Daily Life: Doing a search for (e‑)shopping purposes

Gitte Rasmussen, Elisabeth Kristiansen & Søren Vigild Poulsen | PS 16:1 (2025) pp. 113–144

12 February 2024

The language of threat: An analysis of Swedish online alternative newspaper reports on BLM protests

Marta Andersson | PS 16:1 (2025) p. 89

22 January 2024

“That was a long time ago”: Memory work spanning the arc from normal healthy aging to cognitive impairment

Elena Bandt & Annette Gerstenberg | PS 15:1 (2024) pp. 33–48

Singling out: A method of group inclusion for residents living with dementia

Gitte Rasmussen | PS 15:1 (2024) pp. 157–177

Negotiating the value of rule of law through attitudinal positioning: A corpus-based analysis of Chinese digital indictments

Chunxu Shi | PS 16:1 (2025) pp. 67–88

18 January 2024

Contradicting potential climate misinformation during televised debates

Søren Beck Nielsen | PS 16:1 (2025) pp. 25–45

‘Proto-conversation’ as a practice in late-stage dementia care

Lars-Christer Hydén, Anna Ekström & Ali Reza Majlesi | PS 15:1 (2024) pp. 178–195

Scalar implicature: An encyclopedic semantic approach

Yanfei Zhang, Nina Liang & Shaojie Zhang | PS 16:1 (2025) pp. 46–66

22 December 2023

Learning from initial reviews of multilingual graphics illustrating dementia caregiving

Boyd H. Davis, Margaret Maclagan & Meredith Troutman-Jordan | PS 15:1 (2024) p. 85

“Let’s Just Forget It!”: Discourse of inclusion in a Japanese nursing home

Toshiko Hamaguchi | PS 15:1 (2024) pp. 140–156

Verbal play in dementia care: A longitudinal study

Shumin Lin | PS 15:1 (2024) pp. 122–139

Code accommodation as a measure of inclusion for bilingual people living with dementia of the Alzheimer’s type: A case study

Carolin Schneider & Birte Bös | PS 15:1 (2024) pp. 49–66

21 December 2023

Attitudes to language and bilingualism in residential care for older persons in Ireland: Inclusiveness and construction of positive identities

Nicole Müller & Angela M. Medina | PS 15:1 (2024) pp. 67–84

Conversation practices that foster or hinder inclusivity during interactions involving persons with dementia

Trini Stickle | PS 15:1 (2024) pp. 196–213

Determiners of social inclusion and exclusion in the dementia context: The perspective of family carers

Alison Wray & Axel Bergström | PS 15:1 (2024) pp. 17–32

18 December 2023

On an even playing field of haiku making: An inclusive activity of creative verbal art

Yoshiko Matsumoto, Harumi Maeda, Emily Yu Wan & Hsiao-Wen Liao | PS 15:1 (2024) pp. 104–121

15 December 2023

Chinese patients’ unsolicited presentation of primary concerns

Zi Yang & Xueming Wang | PS 16:1 (2025) pp. 1–24

Taking actions to enhance inclusivity of persons living with dementia

Yoshiko Matsumoto & Heidi E. Hamilton | PS 15:1 (2024) pp. 1–16

1 December 2023

Representation of women in English and Persian proverbs: A Cultural-Linguistic perspective

Ali Dabbagh & Esmat Babaii | PS 15:6 (2024) pp. 929–951

Negotiating academic conflict in discussion sections of doctoral dissertations

F. Esmaili & Esmaeel Abdollahzadeh | PS 15:6 (2024) pp. 905–928

Conspiracy theories and passion: The pragmatics of a Bulgarian debate on vaccination

Todor Hristov | PS 15:6 (2024) pp. 884–904

Klaus-Uwe Panther. 2022. Introduction to Cognitive Pragmatics

Reviewed by Kim Ebensgaard Jensen | PS 15:6 (2024) pp. 952–956

Francisco Yus. 2023. Pragmatics of Internet Humour

Reviewed by Ruby Rong Wei & Yanlan Hu | PS 15:6 (2024) pp. 957–961

30 November 2023

María Elena Placencia & Zohreh R. Eslami (Eds.). 2020. Complimenting Behavior and (Self)Praise across Social Media. New Contexts and New Insights

Reviewed by Juan J. Colomina-Almiñana | PS 15:2 (2024) pp. 345–349

Elin McCready. 2019. The Semantics and Pragmatics of Honorification: Register and Social Meaning

Reviewed by Chengtuan Li & Xiaorui Li | PS 15:5 (2024) pp. 805–809

6 November 2023

Juliane House & Daniel Kádár. 2021. Cross-cultural pragmatics

Reviewed by Roberto Graci | PS 15:5 (2024) pp. 800–804

2 November 2023

Dealing with the dual demands of expertise and democracy: How experts create proximity to the public without undermining their status as experts

Henrike Padmos, Hedwig te Molder & Tom Koole | PS 15:6 (2024) pp. 858–883

30 October 2023

Discursive positioning of doctors and e‑patients in online medical consultations in China: An orientation toward affective affiliation

Yu Zhang | PS 15:6 (2024) pp. 839–857

Douglas Walton, Fabrizio Macagno & Giovanni Sartor. 2019. Statutory Interpretation. Pragmatics and Argumentation

Reviewed by Jan Engberg | PS 15:3 (2024) pp. 495–499

Piotr Cap. 2022. The Discourse of Conflict and Crisis: Poland’s Political Rhetoric in the European Perspective

Reviewed by Roberto M. Lobato | PS 15:4 (2024) pp. 655–659

20 October 2023

On the constitutional relevance of non‑discursive enlanguaged doings to sociomaterial practices

Rasmus Gahrn-Andersen | PS 15:5 (2024) pp. 661–681

Exploring lexical associations in English as a Lingua Franca interactions: Taking verbs of perception as an example

Yang Pang | PS 15:5 (2024) pp. 779–799

17 October 2023

Politely warning? A usage-based analysis of directives in Japanese disaster warnings on Twitter

Amy Ives Takebe | PS 15:5 (2024) pp. 755–778

10 October 2023

Affect in the pragmeme of delivering a health directive: Toward an analysis of affective potential in two BBC videos

Ming-Yu Tseng | PS 15:5 (2024) pp. 708–731

A politeness-theoretic approach to mitigated disagreements in online radio medical consultations

Xin Zhao | PS 15:5 (2024) pp. 732–754

25 September 2023

Maria Economidou-Kogetsidis, Milica Savić & Nicola Halenko (eds.). 2021. Email Pragmatics and Second Language Learners

Reviewed by Yushun Yang & Wulin Ma | PS 14:5 (2023) pp. 801–806

22 September 2023

Xinren Chen. 2021. Exploring identity work in Chinese communication

Reviewed by Muhammad Afzaal | PS 14:6 (2023) pp. 944–948

21 August 2023

Viviana Masia. 2021. The Manipulative Disguise of Truth: Tricks and threats of implicit communication

Reviewed by Chao Jiang & Zhou-min Yuan | PS 14:4 (2023) pp. 656–660

Jef Verschueren. 2021. Complicity in Discourse and Practice

Reviewed by Daniel N. Silva | PS 14:4 (2023) pp. 661–665

7 August 2023

Patients resist, doctors manage: The management of patient resistance by doctors in Chinese Online Medical Consultation

Yansheng Mao, Shuang Wei & Xiaojiang Wang | PS 15:4 (2024) pp. 632–654

27 July 2023

Degrees of negative judgement: Insights from a qualitative study of six sentencing remarks on judges’ sentencing practices

Xin Dai | PS 15:4 (2024) pp. 584–606

Defining openness in teachers’ ‘open’ questions: A pragmatic approach

Chrysi Rapanta | PS 15:4 (2024) pp. 607–631

25 July 2023

Culture and identity in critical remarks: A case study of Russian and Israeli academic classroom discourse

Claudia Zbenovich, Tatiana Larina & Vladimir Ozyumenko | PS 15:3 (2024) pp. 351–375

6 July 2023

Finnish and French public signs from commercial premises during the Covid-19 pandemic

Johanna Isosävi | PS 14:2 (2023) pp. 306–333

Fear appeals in Chinese public signs of COVID-19 prevention in local communities

Mian Jia & Yi Zhao | PS 14:2 (2023) pp. 281–305

Meschonnic, Wittgenstein and translation as form of life

Maíra Mendes Galvão | PS 14:3 (2023) pp. 434–441

Disseminating risk communication: Advice offered on non-official public signage during the Covid-19 pandemic

Eva Ogiermann & Spyridoula Bella | PS 14:2 (2023) pp. 334–357

“Money can buy health”: Risk and protection in Hong Kong’s COVID-19 advertisement-scape

Vincent Wai Sum Tse, Jasper Zhao Zhen Wu & Andre Joseph Theng | PS 14:2 (2023) pp. 257–280

Pragmatic functions of humor in Berlin’s directive Covid-19 Signs

Rita Tamara Vallentin | PS 14:2 (2023) pp. 236–256

Solidarity and support in Belgian residential linguistic landscapes during the Covid-19 outbreak

Mieke Vandenbroucke & Fien De Malsche | PS 14:2 (2023) pp. 210–235

Covid-19 WhatsApp sticker memes as public signs in Oman

Najma Al Zidjaly & Zumurrod Al Barhi | PS 14:2 (2023) pp. 358–381

Introduction: The interpersonal functions of public signs during the Covid-19 pandemic

Eva Ogiermann | PS 14:2 (2023) pp. 197–209

Obituary: Jacob L. Mey III

PS 14:3 (2023) pp. 383–385

20 June 2023

Parents’ indirect utterances in an Indonesian family: A case of pragmatic act

Budi Setiawan | PS 14:5 (2023) pp. 717–731

12 June 2023

Criticizing for the public interest and aligning with others: How Jordanians constructed their online criticisms of lockdown breaches during the COVID-19 pandemic

Muhammad A. Badarneh & Malak Damiri | PS 15:4 (2024) pp. 557–583

6 June 2023

Comparing compliments in Face-to-Face vs. online interactions among Iranian speakers of Persian

Ali Derakhshan, Zohreh R. Eslami & Farzaneh Shakki | PS 15:2 (2024) pp. 320–344

Correcting the scientific record: Legitimation strategies in retraction notices

Yuting Lin | PS 15:4 (2024) pp. 532–556

30 May 2023

Evidential meanings in native and learner Japanese and English: Implications for the assessment of speaker certainty

Luna Filipović, Mika Brown & Paul E. Engelhardt | PS 14:3 (2023) pp. 484–508

Deconstructing imagined identities and imagined communities through humor: Evidence from adult L2 learners’ humorous narratives

Spyridoula Gasteratou & Villy Tsakona | PS 14:3 (2023) pp. 461–483

Blame-avoiding strategies for a digital scandal: A critical discourse analysis of Mark Zuckerberg’s Congressional hearings

Ming Liu & Yanxi Lu | PS 15:3 (2024) pp. 471–494

Deontic authority-based resolution of deontic right-based resistance in online medical consultation

Minwen Wei & Yongping Ran | PS 15:2 (2024) pp. 295–319

Attacks and remedies in online public opinion reversal events

Yiman Wu, Wei Ren & Yi Zhang | PS 15:3 (2024) pp. 448–470

23 May 2023

Where there is panic, the media are close by: A pragmatic study of the alleviation of COVID-19 panic by the Chinese state media

Qingsheng Jiang, Yansheng Mao & Zhou-min Yuan | PS 14:4 (2023) pp. 611–637

10 May 2023

Conventions of author self-reference in Chinese academic writing: Modesty as motivation

Rong Chen & Dafu Yang | PS 15:3 (2024) pp. 425–447

Common ground management via evidential markers in Turkish

Kadri Kuram | PS 15:2 (2024) pp. 275–294

“Trust X, because Y”: A corpus-assisted analysis of trust-related metalanguage labels and trustworthiness cues

Kun Yang | PS 14:5 (2023) pp. 753–776

Kate Scott. 2022. Pragmatics Online

Reviewed by Ying Dai | PS 14:3 (2023) pp. 509–513

28 April 2023

“A tour guide losing her cool”: Emotional stance and social positioning in doing moral work

Chaoqun Xie & Ying Tong | PS 14:5 (2023) pp. 732–752

21 April 2023

Novel veiling and concealing euphemisms in political discourse: A relevance-theoretic perspective

Tatiana Golubeva | PS 14:4 (2023) pp. 593–610

20 April 2023

A study on the intertextuality of Russian media: Focusing on the analysis criteria for intertextuality

Na-young Kim | PS 14:6 (2023) pp. 869–882

18 April 2023

An epistemic interpretation of responses to advice resistance on Chinese phone-ins of family problem counseling

Zhuo Peng | PS 14:6 (2023) pp. 807–823

Variation and society: The periphrases tener/haber que + infinitive by sex/gender of participants in Spanish

María José Serrano | PS 14:4 (2023) pp. 568–592

A contrastive study of Chinese and American online complaints: Speech act construction in relation to face management

Ming Wei | PS 15:3 (2024) pp. 376–399

Representations of ‘leftover women’ in the Chinese English-medium newspapers: A key keyword analysis of the thematic concepts

Yating Yu & Phoenix Lam | PS 14:5 (2023) pp. 695–716

13 April 2023

Historical imprints on Chinese ideological given names

Heng Su, Peyman G. P. Sabet & Grace Q. Zhang | PS 15:4 (2024) pp. 501–531

11 April 2023

The role of assessments in providing evasive answers in news interviews

Abdulrahman Alroumi & El Mustapha Lahlali | PS 14:6 (2023) pp. 883–907

Making up or taunting? Positive rapport and negative rapport strategies in response to sharing business Airbnb’s online negative reviews: A cross-linguistic study

Wei Feng & Leyang An | PS 15:3 (2024) pp. 400–424

Self-help and masculinity: Speech acts in an online men’s group

Alexandra Krendel | PS 14:6 (2023) pp. 844–868

Metaphorical framing in news: How liberals and conservatives talk

Maryam Saneie Moghadam & Reza Ghafar Samar | PS 14:4 (2023) pp. 638–655

6 April 2023

A socio-pragmatic analysis of the Turkish discourse markers of ‘şey’, ‘yani’, and ‘işte’ based on educational level of speakers

Ayşe Altıparmak | PS 14:6 (2023) pp. 908–943

A marathon to nowhere: Conceptualisation of the integrations of the Western Balkans into the EU through the accession is a race metaphor

Zdravko Babić, Milica Vuković-Stamatović & Vesna Bratić | PS 14:4 (2023) pp. 546–567

The interpersonal semantics of rhetoric: Ideological variations and their rhetorical construction in the GM debate in China

Wenge Chen & Ranran Zhang | PS 15:2 (2024) pp. 246–274

Examining the use of reflexive metadiscourse in the construction of affiliative communication in group email requests

Jamie McKeown | PS 14:6 (2023) pp. 824–843

“I hope this is your last sorrow”: Condolence strategies in colloquial Persian

Amir Sheikhan | PS 15:2 (2024) pp. 215–245

3 April 2023

Parentheses used as pragmatic strategies in Chinese online socialization

Jie Li & Yanling Lin | PS 14:3 (2023) pp. 442–460

From evaluative authorities to involved narrators: Variation and change in first-person singulars used in the culture sections of six European newspapers from 1960 to 2010

Pekka Posio & Riie Heikkilä | PS 14:5 (2023) pp. 667–694

Identity gatekeeping in New Work Order organizations: Quality care discussions during performance appraisal interviews

Dorien Van De Mieroop | PS 14:4 (2023) pp. 519–545

Rhetorical strategies for the construction of a corporate identity: A case study based on Huawei annual reports

Nan Wu, Meichun Liu & Jingyuan Zhang | PS 14:5 (2023) pp. 777–800

Getting involved or acting in defence: How a corporation uses the ritual act of apology in response to public criticism

Na Yang & Jiabei Hu | PS 14:3 (2023) pp. 410–433

Jessica S. Robles & Ann Weatherall (eds.). 2021. How Emotions Are Made in Talk

Reviewed by Songsong Zhang & Jinyang Hu | PS 14:3 (2023) pp. 514–518

21 March 2023

Initiating reason-for-the-call action in mundane mobile phone conversation

Ali Kazemi | PS 14:3 (2023) pp. 386–409

14 March 2023

Idioms, proverbs and body part expressions on Yiedie “wellbeing” in Akan

Kofi Agyekum | PS 14:1 (2023) pp. 1–22

“Jerry was a terrific host!” “You were a brilliant guest!”: Reciprocal compliments on Airbnb

Irene Cenni & Camilla Vásquez | PS 14:1 (2023) pp. 117–142

One issue, two genres: A comparison of interactional metadiscourse in the news

Yun Han Chen & Ju Chuan Huang | PS 14:1 (2023) pp. 47–69

On the nature of pragmatic constituents: Considerations on the semantics/pragmatics debate

Roberto Graci | PS 14:1 (2023) pp. 170–184

Would you like a bag for that? Environmental awareness and changing practices for closing buying and selling encounters in retail shopping

Elisabeth Dalby Kristiansen & Gitte Rasmussen | PS 14:1 (2023) pp. 143–169

Semiotic manipulation strategies employed in Iranian printed advertisements

Khadijeh Mohamadi & Hiwa Weisi | PS 14:1 (2023) pp. 70–89

Disagreement strategies and institutional face attack in Chinese mainstream media editorial comments on Weibo

Jie Xia | PS 14:1 (2023) pp. 23–46

Metaphor analysis of the COVID-19 public health emergency on Chinese national news media

Cun Zhang & Zhengjun Lin | PS 14:1 (2023) p. 90

Francisco Yus. 2022. Smartphone Communication. Interactions in the App Ecosystem

Reviewed by Tiancheng Chen & Xinren Chen | PS 14:1 (2023) pp. 190–195

Chaoqun Xie, Francisco Yus & Hartmut Haberland (eds.). 2021. Approaches to Internet Pragmatics: Theory and practice

Reviewed by Shaopeng Li & Yongxiang Yang | PS 14:1 (2023) pp. 185–189

6 December 2022

Virtual dialogues in monologic political discourse: Constructing privileged and oppositional future in political speeches

Piotr Cap | PS 13:5 (2022) pp. 747–768

Doing things with discourse in the mediated political arena: Participation and pluralism of discursive action

Anita Fetzer | PS 13:5 (2022) pp. 769–792

When invoked voices blame real politicians: Confrontational blaming in a speech from Austria’s “commemorative year” 2018

Helmut Gruber | PS 13:5 (2022) pp. 793–814

Polemic polyphony: Voices of the fools and the righteous in Sheikh Jarrah, East Jerusalem

Chaim Noy | PS 13:5 (2022) pp. 815–836

Dialogic language and meta-language in a conflictual discourse

Ohala Spokoiny & Zohar Livnat | PS 13:5 (2022) pp. 837–860

Resemblance in comments/posts interaction: Forms and functions of dialogicity

Elda Weizman & Ayelet Kohn | PS 13:5 (2022) pp. 861–884

Dialogic meaning-making in political settings: An introduction

Elda Weizman & Zohar Livnat | PS 13:5 (2022) pp. 731–746

4 November 2022

Situated co-operative creativity

Brian L. Due | PS 13:4 (2022) pp. 684–702

The performance and relational role of toast intervention in Chinese dining contexts

Jie Li & Xinren Chen | PS 13:4 (2022) pp. 625–643

Trust me, trust my words: Trustworthiness construction in Chinese online medical crowd-funding discourses

Yansheng Mao & Xin Zhao | PS 13:4 (2022) pp. 703–724

Mitigating requesting acts by deaf Jordanian adults

Mohammed Nahar Al-Ali & Salsabeel M. Shatat | PS 13:4 (2022) pp. 663–683

Kwame Nkrumah’s construction of ‘the African people’ via the Unite or Perish myth: A discourse-historical analysis of populist performance

Mark Nartey | PS 13:4 (2022) pp. 605–624

The role of prior and actual situational context in conversational routines produced by Chinese learners of English

Yuqi Wang | PS 13:4 (2022) pp. 585–604

Reduction in and out of context

Jonathan R. White | PS 13:4 (2022) pp. 555–584

Multivaried acceptance of post-editing in China: Attitude, practice, and training

Jianwei Zheng & Wenjun Fan | PS 13:4 (2022) pp. 644–662

Emma Betz, Arnulf Deppermann, Lorenza Mondada & Marja-Leena Sorjonen. 2021. OKAY across Languages: Toward a Comparative Approach to its Use in Talk-in-interaction

Reviewed by Theodossia-Soula Pavlidou | PS 13:4 (2022) pp. 725–729

21 July 2022

From our sisters/to our sisters: The discursive construction of ideal womanhood in the official magazines of the Islamic State

Carmen Aguilera-Carnerero | PS 13:3 (2022) pp. 453–476

“They fabricated lies against us and described us in the harshest of ways”: An analysis of the transitivity patterns used in the online magazine DABIQ

Leanne Bartley | PS 13:3 (2022) pp. 431–452

“I Am Proud to Be a Traitor”: The emotion/opinion interplay in jihadist magazines

Miguel-Ángel Benítez-Castro & Encarnación Hidalgo-Tenorio | PS 13:3 (2022) pp. 501–531

A semi-supervised algorithm for detecting extremism propaganda diffusion on social media

M. Francisco, M. Á. Benítez-Castro, E. Hidalgo-Tenorio & Juan L. Castro | PS 13:3 (2022) pp. 532–554

From image to function: Automated analysis of online jihadi videos

Javier García-Marín & Óscar G. Luengo | PS 13:3 (2022) pp. 383–403

Urban environments favorable to radical narratives: The case of El Puche

Manuel Moyano, Jocelyn J. Bélanger, Roberto M. Lobato & Humberto M. Trujillo | PS 13:3 (2022) pp. 361–382

Under the shadow of swords: The Rhetoric of Jihad. A corpus-based critical analysis of religious metaphors in jihadist magazines

Katie J. Patterson | PS 13:3 (2022) pp. 477–500

Approaches to the discourse of terror: How power relations are represented through forced primings in jihadist magazines

Katie J. Patterson & Michael T. L. Pace-Sigge | PS 13:3 (2022) pp. 404–430

Transdisciplinary approaches to the discourse of Islamist extremism

Encarnación Hidalgo-Tenorio & Juan L. Castro | PS 13:3 (2022) pp. 353–360

23 June 2022

Politeness in hotel service encounter interactions in Spain: The receptionist’s point of view

Lucía Fernández-Amaya | PS 13:2 (2022) pp. 224–249

A study of linguistic manipulations of activating, seeking and creating common ground in intercultural business communication

Chengtuan Li | PS 13:2 (2022) pp. 169–192

Repetition and paraphrase in contexts of concordant and discordant orientations

Sayamol Panseeta & Richard Watson Todd | PS 13:2 (2022) pp. 250–271

The role of object distance and gender in Persian compliment responses

Mehdi Sarkhosh | PS 13:2 (2022) pp. 272–294

More than writing on the wall: An examination of writing and image in a Finnish primary and secondary level learning environment

Timo Savela | PS 13:2 (2022) pp. 295–321

Clean room, uncomfortable bed: A corpus analysis of evaluation devices in hotel reviews

Elizaveta Smirnova | PS 13:2 (2022) pp. 193–223

Language change among Kalhuri Kurdish speakers in Iran: A gain or in vain?

Javad Yarahmadi | PS 13:2 (2022) pp. 322–340

Michael Haugh, Dániel Z. Kádár & Marina Terkourafi (eds.). 2021. The Cambridge Handbook of Sociopragmatics

Reviewed by Ruili Su & Yanfei Zhang | PS 13:2 (2022) pp. 346–351

Klaus P. Schneider & Elly Ifantidou (eds.). 2020. Developmental and Clinical Pragmatics

Reviewed by Kunkun Zhang | PS 13:2 (2022) pp. 341–345

21 March 2022

Performing right-wing political identities on reader comments pages

Ruth Breeze | PS 13:1 (2022) p. 85

A sociopragmatic account of religiosity and secularity in fictional narratives

Kamel Abdelbadie Elsaadany | PS 13:1 (2022) pp. 45–66

The Ethnopragmatics of Jish Arabic-speaking culture

Sandy Habib | PS 13:1 (2022) pp. 67–84

Using wǒmen (we) to mean s/he in Chinese parents’ interaction: Interpersonal meanings and relational work

Yanmei Han & Tao Xiong | PS 13:1 (2022) pp. 126–150

Negotiating identities: First person pronominal use between Japanese university students

Judit Kroo | PS 13:1 (2022) pp. 22–44

Challenges of trust in atypical interaction

Camilla Lindholm & Melisa Stevanovic | PS 13:1 (2022) pp. 107–125

Sociality and moral conflicts: Migrant stories of relational vulnerability

Rosina Márquez Reiter & Dániel Z. Kádár | PS 13:1 (2022) pp. 1–21

Carmen Taleghani-Nikazm, Emma Betz & Peter Golato (eds.). 2020. Mobilizing Others: Grammar and lexis within larger activities

Reviewed by Kamilla Kraft | PS 13:1 (2022) pp. 157–162

Ulrike Schneider & Matthias Eitelmann (eds.). 2020. Linguistic Inquiries into Donald Trump’s Language. From ‘Fake News’ to ‘Tremendous Success’

Reviewed by Nelly Tincheva | PS 13:1 (2022) pp. 151–156

Dawn Archer, Karen Grainger & Piotr Jagodziński. 2020. Politeness in Professional Contexts

Reviewed by Maria Tsimpiri | PS 13:1 (2022) pp. 163–168

7 February 2022

Sociality in complex, multi-layered, technoscapes

Christian Licoppe | PS 12:5 (2021) pp. 850–856

Polymedia life

Mirca Madianou | PS 12:5 (2021) pp. 857–864

Idioms of polymediated practices and the techno-social accomplishment of co-presence in transnational families

Heike Monika Greschke | PS 12:5 (2021) pp. 828–849

‘I’m not a tech person’: Negotiation of academic personas in polymedia environments

Carmen Lee & Dennis Chau | PS 12:5 (2021) pp. 805–827

Polymedia and family multilingualism: Linguistic repertoires and relationships in digitally mediated interaction

Kristin Vold Lexander | PS 12:5 (2021) pp. 782–804

The metapragmatics of mode choice

Andreas Candefors Stæhr & Thomas Rørbeck Nørreby | PS 12:5 (2021) pp. 756–781

Polymedia repertoires of networked individuals: A day-in-the-life approach

Caroline Tagg & Agnieszka Lyons | PS 12:5 (2021) pp. 725–755

Laura Hidalgo-Downing & Blanca Mujic Kraljevic (eds.). 2020. Performing Metaphoric Creativity across Modes and Contexts

Reviewed by Thomas Wiben Jensen | PS 12:5 (2021) pp. 870–874

Andreas H. Jucker. 2020. Politeness in the History of English – From the Middle Ages to the Present Day

Reviewed by Dániel Z. Kádár | PS 12:5 (2021) pp. 865–869

Polymedia in interaction

Jannis Androutsopoulos | PS 12:5 (2021) pp. 707–724

29 October 2021

Motivation and attitudes of Israeli Druze schoolchildren toward L2 Hebrew compared to Modern Standard Arabic

Randa Khair Abbas & Vered Vaknin-Nusbaum | PS 12:4 (2021) pp. 591–611

Compliments and compliment responses in Egyptian and Saudi Arabic: A variational pragmatic comparison

Dina Abdel Salam El-Dakhs | PS 12:4 (2021) pp. 537–566

“Boom! You bought them.”: A metalinguistic analysis of Apple infomercials based on Aristotle’s modes of persuasion

Alireza Jalilifar, Soheil Saidian & Said Nazari | PS 12:4 (2021) pp. 567–590

Painting the state in the text: A pragmatic analysis of Remi Raji’s A Harvest of Laughters

Ruth Karachi Benson Oji | PS 12:4 (2021) pp. 649–668

(Neo)liberalizing the state – Privatization of core government competencies: A CDA approach

Johannes Scherling | PS 12:4 (2021) pp. 612–648

Gratitude communication in academic written acknowledgement: Gender variation

Chihsia Tang | PS 12:4 (2021) pp. 515–536

Withholding consent: How citizens resist expert responses by positioning themselves as ‘the ones to be convinced’

Lotte van Burgsteden & Hedwig te Molder | PS 12:4 (2021) pp. 669–695

Istvan Kecskes. 2019. English as a Lingua Franca: The Pragmatic Perspective

Reviewed by Yahui Chu & Jing Chen | PS 12:4 (2021) pp. 696–700

Ruth Page, Beatrix Busse & Nina Nørgaard (eds.). 2019. Rethinking Language, Text and Context: Interdisciplinary Research in Stylistics in Honour of Michael Toolan

Reviewed by Huayong Li | PS 12:4 (2021) pp. 701–705

5 July 2021

Taking an authorial stance in English and Arabic research article discussions

Hmoud S. Alotaibi | PS 12:3 (2021) pp. 461–487

Disagreement realizations in Arabic: Evidence from the University of Jordan

Hady J. Hamdan & Radwan S. Mahadin | PS 12:3 (2021) pp. 349–372

Sancte et sapienter : Joint fantasizing as the interactional practice of micro and macro contextual understanding

Fabio Indìo Massimo Poppi | PS 12:3 (2021) pp. 437–460

Hedged Turkish complaints and requests in the Problem-Solution text pattern

Çiğdem Karatepe | PS 12:3 (2021) pp. 488–504

Changing patterns of apology in spoken British English: A local grammar based diachronic investigation

Hang Su | PS 12:3 (2021) pp. 410–436

Face-oriented acts of empathy in psychotherapy

Wu Yijin | PS 12:3 (2021) pp. 373–389

Radio program hosts’ self-identity mobilization in Chinese radio-mediated medical consultations

Zhou-min Yuan & Xingchen Shen | PS 12:3 (2021) pp. 390–409

Arnulf Deppermann & Jürgen Streeck. 2018. Time in embodied interaction: Synchronicity and sequentiality of multimodal resources

Reviewed by Stephen J. Cowley | PS 12:3 (2021) pp. 505–509

Edda Weigand & Istvan Kecskes (eds.). 2018. From pragmatics to dialogue

Reviewed by Lifang Wei & Zhongyi Xu | PS 12:3 (2021) pp. 510–514

3 June 2021

On the development of the social-linguistic nexus in discourse research: A critical review

Piotr Cap | PS 12:2 (2021) pp. 309–333

Drilling for fissures and exploiting common ground in the discourse of oil production: An enhanced eco-discourse analysis, Part 2

Wenge Chen, Tom Bartlett & Huiling Peng | PS 12:2 (2021) pp. 167–188

Analysing the functions of online destination forums through a corpus-assisted discourse-analytic approach

Phoenix W. Y. Lam | PS 12:2 (2021) pp. 243–265

Autism spectrum disorder and language choice in Ghana

Elizabeth Orfson-Offei | PS 12:2 (2021) pp. 288–308

“It’s of no value compared to your value”: Developing EFL learners’ metapragmatic awareness of complimenting

Soodeh Saadati & Gülşen Musayeva Vefalı | PS 12:2 (2021) pp. 266–287

Towards a discourse-semantic approach to visual narrative analysis: The case of the BBC news story of Islamic State (IS)

Amir H.Y. Salama | PS 12:2 (2021) pp. 189–223

Efficiency in shaping grammars: The case of multiple occurrences of the Chinese reflexive ziji

Xiaolong Yang & Yicheng Wu | PS 12:2 (2021) pp. 224–242

Rachel Giora & Michael Haugh. 2017. Doing Pragmatics Interculturally: Cognitive, Philosophical, and Sociopragmatic Perspectives

Reviewed by Zhongqing He | PS 12:2 (2021) pp. 344–348

Annick Paternoster & Susan Fitzmaurice (eds.). 2019. Politeness in Nineteenth-Century Europe

Reviewed by Nieves Hernández-Flores | PS 12:2 (2021) pp. 334–338

Eliecer Crespo-Fernández (ed.). 2018. Taboo in discourse: Studies on attenuation and offence in communication

Reviewed by Ruby Rong Wei | PS 12:2 (2021) pp. 339–343

2 March 2021

Swear words for sale: The commodification of swearing

Kristy Beers Fägersten & Gerardine M. Pereira | PS 12:1 (2021) p. 79

The erasure of nature in the discourse of oil production: An enhanced eco-discourse analysis, Part 1

Wenge Chen, Tom Bartlett & Huiling Peng | PS 12:1 (2021) p. 6

Heteroglossia in mother tongue instruction in Sweden and the development of plurilingual literacies

Anne Reath Warren | PS 12:1 (2021) pp. 106–131

Critical sociocognitive analysis of hate speech in the 2015 Nigerian presidential election campaigns

Adesina B. Sunday | PS 12:1 (2021) pp. 59–78

Insults in political comments on GhanaWeb: Ethnopragmatic perspectives

Rachel Thompson | PS 12:1 (2021) pp. 33–58

Why does Lee say what he says the way he says it? A socio-cognitive approach to understanding the Chinese character in East of Eden

Shu Zeng | PS 12:1 (2021) pp. 132–145

Annika Arnold. 2018. Climate change and storytelling. Narratives and cultural meaning in environmental communication

Reviewed by Hermine Penz | PS 12:1 (2021) pp. 162–166

Elise Berman. 2019. Talking like Children: Language and the Production of Age in the Marshall Islands

Reviewed by Scott Saft | PS 12:1 (2021) pp. 146–150

Minyao Huang & Kasia M. Jaszczolt (eds.). 2018. Expressing the Self: Cultural Diversity and Cognitive Universals

Reviewed by Ying Tong & Chaoqun Xie | PS 12:1 (2021) pp. 157–161

Jonathan Culpeper, Michael Haugh & Dániel Z. Kádár (eds.). 2017. The Palgrave Handbook of Linguistic (Im)politeness

Reviewed by Huiyu Zhang & Danqi Zhang | PS 12:1 (2021) pp. 151–156

Professor Farzad Sharifian (1964–2020): Scholar and pioneer of cultural linguistics

Hamzeh Moradi | PS 12:1 (2021) pp. 1–5

20 November 2020

Maji ssu ka? Isn’t that honorific? Ambiguity of New Japanese honorific ssu

Nobuaki Akagi, Mio Bryce & Hiroshi Suzuki | PS 11:4 (2020) pp. 505–523

The impact of pragmatic consciousness-raising tasks on EFL learners’ speech act strategy use

Rasoul Mohammad Hosseinpur & Reza Bagheri Nevisi | PS 11:4 (2020) pp. 570–590

Criticism in the Javanese Arek Cultural Community: Its expression context and strategy use

Edy Jauhari, Djatmika Djatmika & Riyadi Santosa | PS 11:4 (2020) pp. 524–544

Text selection proposals in dialogic reading in primary school

Maaike Pulles, Jan Berenst, Kees de Glopper & Tom Koole | PS 11:4 (2020) pp. 591–614

Analyzing interdiscursivity in legal genres: The case of Chinese lawyers’ written opinions

Wei Ren, Vijay K. Bhatia & Zhengrui Han | PS 11:4 (2020) pp. 615–639

The interplay of cultural expectation, gender role, and communicative behavior: Evidence from compliment-responding behavior

Chihsia Tang | PS 11:4 (2020) pp. 545–569

A corpus-based study of metaphors used to describe Syrian refugees in Jordanian politico-economic discourse: A critical metaphor analysis approach

Aseel Zibin | PS 11:4 (2020) pp. 640–663

Vera Freytag. 2020. Exploring Politeness in Business Emails: A Mixed-Methods Analysis

Reviewed by Dániel Z. Kádár | PS 11:4 (2020) pp. 669–673

Xiaoling He. 2019. Patient-Subject Constructions in Mandarin Chinese: Syntax, semantics, discourse

Reviewed by Xingbing Liu | PS 11:4 (2020) pp. 674–678

Anita Fetzer & Elda Weizman. 2019. The Construction of ‘Ordinariness’ across Media Genres

Reviewed by Yongfeng Zhao | PS 11:4 (2020) pp. 664–668

31 July 2020

The thought processes of criminals: A semantic perspective

Rakefet Dilmon | PS 11:3 (2020) pp. 415–439

Development of deontic modality in Chinese civil laws: A corpus study

Mingyu Gong, Winnie Cheng & Le Cheng | PS 11:3 (2020) pp. 337–362

Communicative problems in Boeing’s advertisement campaign for the combat aircraft Super Hornet

Susanne Kjærbeck & Niels Møller Nielsen | PS 11:3 (2020) pp. 391–414

Instrumental and moral assistance: An embodied interaction analysis of assisted shopping activities between a person with acquired brain injury and her caregivers

Antonia L. Krummheuer | PS 11:3 (2020) pp. 440–462

Government of oneself and others via a Facebook profile: Rhetorical and ethical dimensions of neoliberal governmentality

Michał Mokrzan | PS 11:3 (2020) pp. 463–484

The freshman swimmer and the intoxicated woman: Sexist discourse in news coverage of the Stanford rape case

Vanessa Viehbeck | PS 11:3 (2020) pp. 363–390

Scott Saft. 2019. Exploring Multilingual Hawaiʻi: Language Use and Language Ideologies in a Diverse Society

Reviewed by Toshiaki Furukawa | PS 11:3 (2020) pp. 485–488

Patricia Bou-Franch & Pilar Garcés-Conejos Blitvich (eds.). 2019. Analyzing Digital Discourse: New Insights and Future Directions

Reviewed by Zhiyi Wu | PS 11:3 (2020) pp. 495–500

Mostafa Morady Moghaddam. 2019. The Praxis of Indirect Reports: Cognitive, Sociopragmatic, and Philosophical Issues

Reviewed by Guangting Wu | PS 11:3 (2020) pp. 489–494

Cristina Grisot. 2018. Cohesion, Coherence and Temporal Reference from an Experimental Corpus Pragmatics Perspective

Reviewed by Jianhua Zhang | PS 11:3 (2020) pp. 501–504

13 July 2020

Incitement to discriminatory hatred, illocution and perlocution

Stavros Assimakopoulos | PS 11:2 (2020) pp. 177–195

Pragmatics lost? Overview, synthesis and proposition in defining online hate speech

Fabienne Baider | PS 11:2 (2020) pp. 196–217

Civil courage as a communicative act: Countering the harms of hate violence

Paul Iganski | PS 11:2 (2020) pp. 315–334

Culture-driven emotional profiles and online discourse extremism

Barbara Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk | PS 11:2 (2020) pp. 261–290

“They cowardly attack US, so we nobly eliminate them…”: The emergence of the translocal group in the propaganda of the Islamic State

Cristina Mayor-Goicoechea & Jesús Romero-Trillo | PS 11:2 (2020) pp. 291–314

The use of hyperlinking as evidential practice in Danish online hate speech

Sharon Millar, Rasmus Nielsen, Anna Vibeke Lindø & Klaus Geyer | PS 11:2 (2020) pp. 240–260

The Multi-Component Model for the semantic analysis of slurs

Björn Technau | PS 11:2 (2020) pp. 218–239

Introduction: Defining, performing and countering hate speech

Fabienne Baider, Sharon Millar & Stavros Assimakopoulos | PS 11:2 (2020) pp. 171–176

30 March 2020

When lying is more than deceiving: A pragmatic study of lying, based on the relevance-adaptation model

Xin Li & Yumeng Yuan | PS 11:1 (2020) pp. 124–148

Metonymic and metaphoric meaning extensions of Chinese FACE and its collocations

Zhengjun Lin & Shengxi Jin | PS 11:1 (2020) p. 96

Discourse markers as indicators of connectedness between expositive illocutionary acts

Etsuko Oishi | PS 11:1 (2020) pp. 1–23

What makes a good story? Exemplification and explication of salient linguistic characteristics in a narrative preferred by the majority of a Danish population

Charlotte Petersen | PS 11:1 (2020) pp. 24–44

Extraordinary emergencies: Reproducing moral discourses of the child in institutional interaction

Daniella Rafaely & Kevin A. Whitehead | PS 11:1 (2020) pp. 45–69

An emergent English-mediated identity and a Chinese variety of WE

Asha Tickoo | PS 11:1 (2020) pp. 70–95

Charles Goodwin. 2018. Co-Operative Action

Reviewed by Kristian Mortensen & Spencer Hazel | PS 11:1 (2020) pp. 164–169

A cognitive-pragmatic study of non-scalar implicatures

Yanfei Zhang & Shaojie Zhang | PS 11:1 (2020) pp. 149–163

14 January 2020

Interactional metadiscourse of gender in Persian: The case of conference presentations

Mohammad Amouzadeh & Raha Zareifard | PS 10:4 (2019) pp. 512–537

How can CDA unravel power relations in media representations of conflict in the Middle East? Transediting as a case study

Samia Bazzi | PS 10:4 (2019) pp. 584–612

Hotel management’s attempts at repairing customers’ trust: The use of apology and denial

Victor Ho | PS 10:4 (2019) pp. 493–511

Doing business and constructing identities through small talk in workplace instant messaging

Bernie Chun Nam Mak | PS 10:4 (2019) pp. 559–583

Kinship term generalization as a cultural pragmatic strategy among Chinese graduate students

Juanjuan Ren & Xinren Chen | PS 10:4 (2019) pp. 613–638

An activity theory approach to the contextualization mechanism of language use: Taking translation, pseudo-translation and self-translation as examples

Zhonggang Sang | PS 10:4 (2019) pp. 538–558

Karen Risager. 2018. Representations of the World in Language Textbooks

Reviewed by David Block | PS 10:4 (2019) pp. 658–662

Larssyn Staley. 2018. Socioeconomic Pragmatic Variation: Speech acts and address forms in context

Reviewed by Victor Ho | PS 10:4 (2019) pp. 648–653

Julia Muschalik. 2018. Threatening in English: A mixed method approach

Reviewed by Andrea Kleene | PS 10:4 (2019) pp. 663–666

Václav Brezina, Robbie Love & Karin Aijmer (eds.). 2018. Corpus Approaches to Contemporary British Speech: Sociolinguistic Studies of the Spoken BNC2014

Reviewed by Zhenzhen Yang | PS 10:4 (2019) pp. 654–657

Ritual frame and ‘politeness markers’

Dániel Kádár & Juliane House | PS 10:4 (2019) pp. 639–647

22 October 2019

Multimodal membership categorization and storytelling in a guided tour

Matthew Burdelski & Chie Fukuda | PS 10:3 (2019) pp. 337–358

Membership categorization and storytelling: The cake story

Dennis Day & Susanne Kjærbeck | PS 10:3 (2019) pp. 359–374

Place and membership categorization in a Hawaiian language radio show

Toshiaki Furukawa | PS 10:3 (2019) pp. 375–398

“I am an adult now”: Re-storying an ‘abuse’ narrative through categorization

Matthew T. Prior | PS 10:3 (2019) pp. 423–451

Constructing desirable brides: Membership categorization, medium of education, and arranged marriages

Priti Sandhu | PS 10:3 (2019) pp. 399–422

The importance of borrowing across disciplines: The anthropological notion of speech events

Roger W. Shuy | PS 10:3 (2019) pp. 452–469

Alessandro Capone, The Pragmatics of Indirect Reports: Socio-philosophical Considerations

Caterina Scianna | PS 10:3 (2019) pp. 470–485

Cornelia Ilie & Neal R. Norrick (eds.). 2018. Pragmatics and its Interfaces

Reviewed by Belinda Crawford Camiciottoli | PS 10:3 (2019) pp. 486–491

Categorization in multilingual storytelling: Introduction

Matthew T. Prior & Steven Talmy | PS 10:3 (2019) pp. 329–336

5 July 2019

Time tells a story: Temporality as a marker of ideology in the Palestinian political discourse

Sufyan Abuarrah | PS 10:2 (2019) pp. 230–250

Interpersonal rhetoric of attitude in news: CNN vs. AJE

Mona Bahmani & Ahlam Alharbi | PS 10:2 (2019) pp. 251–286

Describing the Cookie Theft picture: Sources of breakdown in Alzheimer’s dementia

Louise Cummings | PS 10:2 (2019) pp. 153–176

Epistemic and deontic authority in the argumentum ad verecundiam

Marcin Koszowy & Douglas Walton | PS 10:2 (2019) pp. 287–315

Responding to customer complaints on English and Polish corporate profiles on Twitter

Anna Tereszkiewicz | PS 10:2 (2019) pp. 205–229

What makes a positive experience? Offline/online communication and rapport enhancement in Airbnb positive reviews

María de la O Hernández-López | PS 10:2 (2019) pp. 177–204

Alwin F. Fill & Hermine Penz (eds.). 2018. The Routledge Handbook of Ecolinguistics

Reviewed by Guowen Huang | PS 10:2 (2019) pp. 322–328

David Chor Shing Li. 2017. Multilingual Hong Kong: Languages, Literacies and Identities

Reviewed by Bernie Chun Nam Mak | PS 10:2 (2019) pp. 316–321

28 May 2019

Evidence-gathering in police interviews: Communication problems and possible solutions

Luna Filipović | PS 10:1 (2019) p. 9

Translating accurately or sounding natural? The interpreters’ challenges due to semantic typology and the interpreting process

Alberto Hijazo-Gascón | PS 10:1 (2019) pp. 72–94

“You keep telling us different things, what do we believe?”: Meta-communication and meta-representation in police interviews

Andreas Musolff | PS 10:1 (2019) pp. 32–48

“Would it be fair to say that you actively sought out material?”: Mitigation and aggravation in police investigative interviews

Carlos de Pablos-Ortega | PS 10:1 (2019) pp. 49–71

Rapport-building in suspects’ police interviews: The role of empathy and face

Gabrina Pounds | PS 10:1 (2019) p. 95

Striving for impartiality: Conflicts of role, trust and emotion in interpreter-assisted police interviews

Lauren Wilson & Dave Walsh | PS 10:1 (2019) pp. 122–151

Police interviews: Communication challenges and solutions

Luna Filipović | PS 10:1 (2019) pp. 1–8

10 January 2019

Investigating audience orientation in courtroom communication: The case of the closing argument

Krisda Chaemsaithong | PS 9:4 (2018) pp. 545–570

Asian slurs and stereotypes in the USA: A context-sensitive account of derogation and appropriation

Adam M. Croom | PS 9:4 (2018) pp. 495–517

Investigating the apology strategies of Saudi learners of English: Foreign language learning in focus

Dina Abdel Salam El-Dakhs | PS 9:4 (2018) pp. 598–625

Multimodal acquisition of interactive aptitudes: A microgenetic case study

Jarret Geenen | PS 9:4 (2018) pp. 518–544

Debating or displaying political positions? MPs’ reactive statements during the inaugural speech debates in the Austrian parliament

Helmut Gruber | PS 9:4 (2018) pp. 571–597

A diachronic analysis of metaphor clusters in political discourse: A comparative study of Chinese and American presidents’ speeches at universities

Yi Sun & Xi Chen | PS 9:4 (2018) pp. 626–653

Osamu Sawada. 2018. Pragmatic Aspects of Scalar Modifiers: The Semantics-Pragmatics Interface

Reviewed by Jacob L. Mey | PS 9:4 (2018) pp. 654–656

28 June 2018

Introduction to the special issue: Discourse approaches to evidentiality in Spanish

Marta Albelda Marco & Maria Estellés | PS 9:3 (2018) pp. 333–339

Evidentials as a mark of genre: A study of four oral and written genres

Marta Albelda Marco | PS 9:3 (2018) pp. 429–453

Why did Trump say “I hope you will let Flynn go” to Comey? Pragmemes and socio-pragmatics (A Strawsonian analysis)

Alessandro Capone & Antonino Bucca | PS 9:2 (2018) pp. 208–231

What genres tell us about evidentials and vice versa: A study of al parecer in Spanish parliamentary debates

Maria Estellés | PS 9:3 (2018) pp. 402–428

Language, attitudes and party politics: The representation of Republicans and Democrats in Presidential weekly addresses

Dezheng (William) Feng & Shuo Zhang | PS 9:2 (2018) pp. 232–251

Breathing life into social presence: The case of texting between friends

Marie-Theres Fester & Stephen J. Cowley | PS 9:2 (2018) pp. 274–296

Evidentiality in illness narratives: Structures with the Spanish verb ver in autobiographical narratives of eating disorders

Carolina Figueras Bates | PS 9:3 (2018) pp. 356–380

Embodied departure from focal objects in a lingua franca campus tour

Yuri Hosoda & David Aline | PS 9:3 (2018) pp. 454–484

Does the source matter? Specificity in reportative evidentiality in Spanish scientific discourse (1799–1920)

Dorota Kotwica | PS 9:3 (2018) pp. 340–355

Exploring the construction of the Irish Mammy in ‘Mrs Brown’s Boys’: Making and breaking the stereotype

Bróna Murphy & María Palma-Fahey | PS 9:2 (2018) pp. 297–328

Hedging in political interviewing: When Obama meets the press

Diane Ponterotto | PS 9:2 (2018) pp. 175–207

Does a corpus informed analysis provide any insights as to why Robert Phillipson’s theory of Linguistic Imperialism is labelled by some as a conspiracy theory?

Sean Thornton | PS 9:2 (2018) pp. 252–273

Evidential language in Internet forums: A study of the unit “ya me dirás tú”

Aina Torrent i Alamany-Lenzen | PS 9:3 (2018) pp. 381–401

Andreas Musolff. 2016. Political Metaphor Analysis: Discourse and Scenarios

Reviewed by Kathleen Ahrens | PS 9:2 (2018) pp. 329–332

Kerstin Fischer. 2016. Designing Speech for a Recipient: The Roles of Partner Modeling, Alignment and Feedback in so-called ‘Simplified Registers’

Reviewed by Kim Ebensgaard Jensen | PS 9:3 (2018) pp. 490–494

Rodney H. Jones. 2016. Spoken Discourse

Reviewed by Danyal Freeman | PS 9:3 (2018) pp. 485–489

Obituary

PS 9:2 (2018) pp. 173–174

26 March 2018

Lexical chains and topic continuity in the register of popular scientific writing: German-English contrasts

Nicole Hützen & Tatiana Serbina | PS 9:1 (2018) p. 8

Crossing languages – crossing discourses: A corpus-assisted study of Kulturkampf in German, Polish and English

Sylvia Jaworska & Torsten Leuschner | PS 9:1 (2018) pp. 117–147

Conflicts in comparison: Scottish and German discursive perspectives on the Scottish independence referendum

Anna Mattfeldt | PS 9:1 (2018) pp. 52–74

The afterlife of an infamous gaffe: Wilhelm II’s ‘Hun speech’ of 1900 and the anti-German Hun stereotype during World War I in British and German popular memory

Andreas Musolff | PS 9:1 (2018) pp. 75–90

How words behave in other languages: The use of German Nazi vocabulary in English

Melani Schröter | PS 9:1 (2018) p. 91

“Well would you believe it, I have failed the exam again”: Discourse relations in English and German personal narratives

Augustin Speyer & Anita Fetzer | PS 9:1 (2018) pp. 26–51

Anne Barron, Yueguo Gu & Gerard Steen (eds.). 2017. The Routledge Handbook of Pragmatics

Reviewed by Xin Li | PS 9:1 (2018) pp. 148–154

Dorien Van De Mieroop & Stephanie Schnurr (eds.). 2017. Identity Struggles: Evidence from workplaces around the world

Reviewed by Jamie McKeown | PS 9:1 (2018) pp. 155–161

Stephen Evans. 2016. The English Language in Hong Kong: Diachronic and Synchronic Perspectives

Reviewed by Xuanzhi Shi & Mark Nartey | PS 9:1 (2018) pp. 162–167

Jackie Jia Lou. 2016. The Linguistic Landscape of Chinatown: A Sociolinguistic Ethnography

Reviewed by Zhongyi Xu & Lifang Wei | PS 9:1 (2018) pp. 168–172

Editorial

PS 9:1 (2018) p. 1

Introduction: Anglo-German discourse crossings and contrasts

Torsten Leuschner & Sylvia Jaworska | PS 9:1 (2018) pp. 2–7

19 January 2018

The question of power in language classes from a critical discourse analysis perspective: Once a student, always a student?

Esmat Babaii, Abbas Parsazadeh & Hassan Moradi | PS 8:4 (2017) pp. 542–570

Performing acts of impoliteness through code-switching to English in colloquial Jordanian Arabic interactions

Muhammad A. Badarneh, Kawakib Al-Momani & Fathi Migdadi | PS 8:4 (2017) pp. 571–600

Lexicography, discourse and power: Uncovering ideology in the bilingualization of a monolingual English dictionary in China

Wenge Chen | PS 8:4 (2017) pp. 601–629

Order in disorder: Audience responses and political rhetoric in speeches from the second round of the 2012 French presidential election

Sarah Ledoux & Peter Bull | PS 8:4 (2017) pp. 520–541

Nations in news: Ordinary stereotypes in national TV news coverage of Spain and Germany

Richard Pfeilstetter | PS 8:4 (2017) pp. 477–497

Variations in the use of metaphor at the macro-contextual level: The case of English press news

Jian-Shiung Shie | PS 8:4 (2017) pp. 498–519

Hans J. Ladegaard. 2017. The Discourse of Powerlessness and Repression: Life Stories of Domestic Migrant Workers in Hong Kong

Reviewed by Marta Kirilova | PS 8:4 (2017) pp. 631–635

Alessandro Capone & Jacob L. Mey (eds). 2016. Interdisciplinary Studies in Pragmatics, Culture and Society

Reviewed by Chaoqun Xie | PS 8:4 (2017) pp. 636–643

27 October 2017

How the initiation and resolution of repair sequences act as a device for the co-construction of membership and identity

Amanda Huensch | PS 8:3 (2017) pp. 355–376

“Are men sexually harassed?”: Enacting the discourse of hegemonic masculinity in the evaluation of stories of male sexual harassment on Kenyan talk radio

Joy Mueni & Jonathan Clifton | PS 8:3 (2017) pp. 448–471

Emotional positioning as a cognitive resource for arguing: Lessons from the study of Mexican students debating about drinking water management

Claire Polo, Christian Plantin, Kristine Lund & Gerald Peter Niccolai | PS 8:3 (2017) pp. 323–354

Is variety as neutral as it seems? Re-visiting the concept of linguistic variety (and other basic linguistic terms)

Vinton Wing Kin Poon | PS 8:3 (2017) pp. 377–399

Compliment response patterns between younger and older generations of Persian speakers

Mehdi Sarkhosh & Ali Alizadeh | PS 8:3 (2017) pp. 421–447

But as a stance marker in Nigerian investigative public hearings

Foluke Olayinka Unuabonah | PS 8:3 (2017) pp. 400–420

Daria Dayter. 2016. Discursive Self in Microblogging: Speech acts, stories and self-praise

Reviewed by Daniel Recktenwald | PS 8:3 (2017) pp. 472–477

13 October 2017

Performing acts of impoliteness through code-switching to English in colloquial Jordanian Arabic interactions

Muhammad A. Badarneh, Kawakib Al-Momani & Fathi Migdadi | PS 8:3 (2017)

10 August 2017

Prompting offers of assistance in interaction

Michael Haugh | PS 8:2 (2017) pp. 183–207

Culture-generality and culture-specificity of face: Insights from argumentative talk in Iranian dissertation defenses

Ahmad Izadi | PS 8:2 (2017) pp. 208–230

Initiating side-sequenced vocabulary lessons: Asymmetry of linguistic knowledge and opportunities for learning in conversation

Mariko Kotani | PS 8:2 (2017) pp. 254–280

Perception of (im)politeness and the underlying cultural conceptualisations: A study of Persian

Farzad Sharifian & Tahmineh Tayebi | PS 8:2 (2017) pp. 231–253

“Can I say something?”: Meta turn-taking in natural talk

Beatrice Szczepek Reed | PS 8:2 (2017) pp. 161–182

Metaphors of parliamentary budget debates in times of crisis: The case of the UK and the Montenegrin parliament

Milica Vuković Stamatović | PS 8:2 (2017) pp. 281–311

Anita Fetzer (ed.,). 2013 . The Pragmatics of Political Discourse: Explorations across Cultures

Reviewed by Xiaoqing Yan | PS 8:2 (2017) pp. 313–317

Jan-Ola Östman & Anna Solin (eds.). 2016. Discourse and Responsibility in Professional Settings

Reviewed by Jin Ying | PS 8:2 (2017) pp. 318–322

25 April 2017

The impact of face systems on the pragmalinguistic features of academic e-mail requests

Erhan Aslan | PS 8:1 (2017) pp. 61–84

Scope and partitivity of plural indefinite noun phrases in Spanish

Juan J. Colomina-Almiñana | PS 8:1 (2017) pp. 107–128

The very sensitive question: Chronotopes, insecurity and Farsi heritage language classrooms

Martha Sif Karrebæk & Narges Ghandchi | PS 8:1 (2017) pp. 38–60

Karachi weds Lahore: The performance of ethnolinguistic identities in Pakistani TV comedy

Gwendolyn Kirk | PS 8:1 (2017) pp. 26–37

Aligning caller and call-taker: The opening phrase of Dutch emergency calls

Tom Koole & Nina Verberg | PS 8:1 (2017) pp. 129–153

A subtle kind of certainty: Market dynamics and symbolic violence in professional financial planning

Patrick F. Parnaby | PS 8:1 (2017) p. 85

Sociolinguistic representations of the military in Greek comedy films: Laughing at the army

Anastasia G. Stamou & Stavros Christou | PS 8:1 (2017) pp. 1–25

Aditi Bhatia. 2015. Discursive Illusions in Public Discourse: Theory and Practice

Reviewed by Jacob L. Mey | PS 8:1 (2017) pp. 155–160

20 December 2016

Negotiating with the Boss: An inter- and cross-cultural perspective on problematic talk

Lars Fant & Annika Denke | PS 7:4 (2016) pp. 540–569

Patterns of thanking in the closing section of UK service calls: Marking conversational macro-structure vs managing interpersonal relations

Maj-Britt Mosegaard Hansen | PS 7:4 (2016) pp. 664–692

The (co-) construction of potentially interpersonally sensitive activities across languages and institutional contexts

Maj-Britt Mosegaard Hansen & Rosina Márquez Reiter | PS 7:4 (2016) pp. 507–511

Apologies made at the Leveson Inquiry: Triggers and responses

James Murphy | PS 7:4 (2016) pp. 595–617

Requests and counters in Russian traffic police officer-citizen encounters: Face and identity implications

Rosina Márquez Reiter, Kristina Ganchenko & Anna Charalambidou | PS 7:4 (2016) pp. 512–539

When routine calls for information become interpersonally sensitive

Sara Orthaber & Rosina Márquez Reiter | PS 7:4 (2016) pp. 638–663

When questioners count on recipients’ lack of knowledge: A recurring ‘question-answer’ format in guided tours

Anna-Claudia Ticca & Veronique Traverso | PS 7:4 (2016) pp. 618–637

Evading and resisting answering: An analysis of Mexican Spanish news interviews

Ariel Vázquez Carranza | PS 7:4 (2016) pp. 570–594

15 September 2016

Discursive pragmatics of T-shirt inscriptions: Constructing the self, context and social aspirations

Innocent Chiluwa & Esther Ajiboye | PS 7:3 (2016) pp. 436–462

Enacting and negotiating power relations through teasing in distributed leadership constellations

Seongsook Choi & Stephanie Schnurr | PS 7:3 (2016) pp. 482–502

Reformulating the question in US Presidential debates: A device for adjusting the question and the subsequent answer to one's audience

Ronald R. Jacobsen | PS 7:3 (2016) pp. 391–412

The role of metapragmatic expressions as pragmatic manipulation in a TV panel discussion program

Ping Liu & Yongping Ran | PS 7:3 (2016) pp. 463–481

Language choice in multilingual religious settings: The historical factor

Antoine Willy Ndzotom Mbakop | PS 7:3 (2016) pp. 413–435

Complimenting behaviour on Facebook: Responding to compliments in American English

María Elena Placencia, Amanda Lower & Hebe Powell | PS 7:3 (2016) pp. 339–365

Argument in professional-client encounters: Building cases through second-hand assessments

Janne Solberg | PS 7:3 (2016) pp. 366–390

Innocent Chiluwa. 2011. Labeling and Ideology in the Press: A Corpus-based Critical Discourse Study of the Niger Delta Crisis

Reviewed by Mark Nartey | PS 7:3 (2016) pp. 503–506

16 June 2016

Keeping it real or selling out: The effects of accent modification on personal identity

Alexander Baratta | PS 7:2 (2016) pp. 291–319

The carnival is not over: Cultural resistance in dementia care

Andrea Capstick & John Chatwin | PS 7:2 (2016) pp. 169–195

Discursive construction and negotiation of laity on an online health forum

Antoinette Fage-Butler & Patrizia Anesa | PS 7:2 (2016) pp. 196–216

Annotating as narrative performance in subtitle groups in China

Chi-hua Hsiao | PS 7:2 (2016) pp. 239–264

Rituals of outspokenness and verbal conflict

Dániel Z. Kádár & Melvin de la Cruz | PS 7:2 (2016) pp. 265–290

The International Classification of Disability, Functioning and Health (ICF): An example of research methods and language in describing ‘social functioning’ in medical research

Gitte Rasmussen | PS 7:2 (2016) pp. 217–238

William Labov. 2013. The Language of Life and Death: The Transformation of Experience in Oral Narrative

Reviewed by Song-Jing Chen | PS 7:2 (2016) pp. 321–326

Philip Seargeant & Caroline Tagg (eds). 2014. The Language of Social Media: Identity and Community on the Internet

Reviewed by Wenge Chen | PS 7:2 (2016) pp. 333–337

Asta Cekaite, Shoshana Blum-Kulka, Vibeke Grøver & Eva Teubal (eds). 2014. Children’s Peer Talk - Learning from Each Other

Reviewed by Pia Thomsen | PS 7:2 (2016) pp. 327–332

2016

The carnival is not over: Cultural resistance in dementia care

Andrea Capstick & John Chatwin | PS 7:2 pp. 169–195

7 April 2016

The future in reports: Prediction, commitment and legitimization in corporate social responsibility (CSR)

Marina Bondi | PS 7:1 (2016) pp. 57–81

Introduction: Discourse and communication in organizations

Winnie Cheng | PS 7:1 (2016) pp. 1–7

Flight attendant identity construction in inflight incident reports

Barbara Clark | PS 7:1 (2016) p. 8

Branding the nation: Swiss multilingualism and the promotional capitalization on national history under late capitalism

Alfonso Del Percio | PS 7:1 (2016) p. 82

Towards a pragmatic analysis of product discourse: Creative force and metapragmatic performance

Ming-Yu Tseng | PS 7:1 (2016) pp. 105–140

Interventionist applied conversation analysis: Collaborative transcription and repair based learning (CTRBL) in aviation

William A. Tuccio, David A. Esser, Gillian Driscoll, Ian R. McAndrew & MaryJo O. Smith | PS 7:1 (2016) pp. 30–56

Humanities and the public sphere: A pragmatic perspective

Jef Verschueren | PS 7:1 (2016) pp. 141–161

Daniela Landert. 2014. Personalisation in Mass Media Communication. British Online News between Public and Private

Reviewed by Shu-Kun Chen | PS 7:1 (2016) pp. 163–168

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