Pragmatics and Society

Articles
• Hotel management’s attempts at repairing customers’ trust: The use of apology and denial
  Victor Ho | pp. 493–511
• Interactional metadiscourse of gender in Persian: The case of conference presentations
  Mohammad Amouzadeh & Raha Zareifard | pp. 512–537
• An activity theory approach to the contextualization mechanism of language use: Taking translation, pseudo-translation and self-translation as examples
  Zhonggang Sang | pp. 538–558
• Doing business and constructing identities through small talk in workplace instant messaging
  Bernie Chun Nam Mak | pp. 559–583
• How can CDA unravel power relations in media representations of conflict in the Middle East? Transediting as a case study
  Samia Bazzi | pp. 584–612
• Kinship term generalization as a cultural pragmatic strategy among Chinese graduate students
  Juanjuan Ren & Xinren Chen | pp. 613–638
FORUM
• Ritual frame and ‘politeness markers’
  Dániel Kádár & Juliane House | pp. 639–647
Book reviews
• Larssyn Staley. 2018. Socioeconomic Pragmatic Variation: Speech acts and address forms in context
  Reviewed by Victor Ho | pp. 648–653
• Václav Brezina, Robbie Love & Karin Aijmer (eds.). 2018. Corpus Approaches to Contemporary British Speech: Sociolinguistic Studies of the Spoken BNC2014
  Reviewed by Zhenzhen Yang | pp. 654–657
• Karen Risager. 2018. Representations of the World in Language Textbooks
  Reviewed by David Block | pp. 658–662
• Julia Muschalik. 2018. Threatening in English: A mixed method approach
  Reviewed by Andrea Kleene | pp. 663–666

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