Pragmatics and Society

Editor-in-Chief
ORCID logoDaria Dayter | Tampere University | daria.dayter at tuni.fi
Co-editors
ORCID logoHartmut Haberland | Roskilde University
ORCID logoHermine Penz | Karl Franzens University of Graz
Review Editor
ORCID logoThomas C. Messerli | University of Basel
Founding Editor
Jacob L. Mey | University of Southern Denmark

Pragmatics and Society puts the spotlight on societal aspects of language use, while incorporating many other facets of society-oriented pragmatic studies. It brings together a variety of approaches to the study of language in context, inspired by different research perspectives and drawing on various disciplines, for instance, sociology, psychology, developmental and cognitive science, anthropology, media research, and computer-related social studies. It is concerned with how language use and social normativity influence and shape each other, for instance, in education (the teaching and acquisition of first and second languages), in political discourse (with its manipulative language use), in the discourse of business and the workplace, and in all kinds of discriminatory uses of language (gender- and class-based or other). Finally, it pays special attention to the impact that our increased dependency on the computer is having on communication and interaction (especially as seen in the social media), as well as to the role of pragmatics in guiding social and racial emancipatory developments. The journal does not accept unsolicited reviews.

Pragmatics and Society publishes its articles Online First.

ISSN: 1878-9714 | E-ISSN: 1878-9722
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https://doi.org/10.1075/ps
Latest articles

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
  • 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
  • 12 February 2024

  • The language of threat : An analysis of Swedish online alternative newspaper reports on BLM protests
    Marta Andersson
  • 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
  • 18 January 2024

  • Contradicting potential climate misinformation during televised debates
    Søren Beck Nielsen
  • ‘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
  • 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
  • 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
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