Pragmatics and Society

Articles
• Gratitude communication in academic written acknowledgement: Gender variation
  Chihsia Tang | pp. 515–536
• Compliments and compliment responses in Egyptian and Saudi Arabic: A variational pragmatic comparison
  Dina Abdel Salam El-Dakhs | 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 | pp. 567–590
• Motivation and attitudes of Israeli Druze schoolchildren toward L2 Hebrew compared to Modern Standard Arabic
  Randa Khair Abbas & Vered Vaknin-Nusbaum | pp. 591–611
• (Neo)liberalizing the state – Privatization of core government competencies: A CDA approach
  Johannes Scherling | pp. 612–648
• Painting the state in the text: A pragmatic analysis of Remi Raji’s A Harvest of Laughters
  Ruth Karachi Benson Oji | pp. 649–668
• Withholding consent: How citizens resist expert responses by positioning themselves as ‘the ones to be convinced’
  Lotte van Burgsteden & Hedwig te Molder | pp. 669–695
Book reviews
• Istvan Kecskes. 2019. English as a Lingua Franca: The Pragmatic Perspective
  Reviewed by Yahui Chu & Jing Chen | 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 | pp. 701–705

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