Pragmatics and Society

Articles
• Maji ssu ka? Isn’t that honorific? Ambiguity of New Japanese honorific ssu
  Nobuaki Akagi, Mio Bryce & Hiroshi Suzuki | pp. 505–523
• Criticism in the Javanese Arek Cultural Community: Its expression context and strategy use
  Edy Jauhari, Djatmika Djatmika & Riyadi Santosa | pp. 524–544
• The interplay of cultural expectation, gender role, and communicative behavior: Evidence from compliment-responding behavior
  Chihsia Tang | pp. 545–569
• The impact of pragmatic consciousness-raising tasks on EFL learners’ speech act strategy use
  Rasoul Mohammad Hosseinpur & Reza Bagheri Nevisi | pp. 570–590
• Text selection proposals in dialogic reading in primary school
  Maaike Pulles, Jan Berenst, Kees de Glopper & Tom Koole | pp. 591–614
• Analyzing interdiscursivity in legal genres: The case of Chinese lawyers’ written opinions
  Wei Ren, Vijay K. Bhatia & Zhengrui Han | pp. 615–639
• A corpus-based study of metaphors used to describe Syrian refugees in Jordanian politico-economic discourse: A critical metaphor analysis approach
  Aseel Zibin | pp. 640–663
Book reviews
• Anita Fetzer & Elda Weizman. 2019. The Construction of ‘Ordinariness’ across Media Genres
  Reviewed by Yongfeng Zhao | pp. 664–668
• Vera Freytag. 2020. Exploring Politeness in Business Emails: A Mixed-Methods Analysis
  Reviewed by Dániel Z. Kádár | pp. 669–673
• Xiaoling He. 2019. Patient-Subject Constructions in Mandarin Chinese: Syntax, semantics, discourse
  Reviewed by Xingbing Liu | pp. 674–678

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