Pragmatics and Society

Articles
• Idioms, proverbs and body part expressions on Yiedie “wellbeing” in Akan
  Kofi Agyekum | pp. 1–22
• Disagreement strategies and institutional face attack in Chinese mainstream media editorial comments on Weibo
  Jie Xia | pp. 23–46
• One issue, two genres: A comparison of interactional metadiscourse in the news
  Yun Han Chen & Ju Chuan Huang | pp. 47–69
• Semiotic manipulation strategies employed in Iranian printed advertisements
  Khadijeh Mohamadi & Hiwa Weisi | pp. 70–89
• Metaphor analysis of the COVID-19 public health emergency on Chinese national news media
  Cun Zhang & Zhengjun Lin | pp. 90–116
• “Jerry was a terrific host!” “You were a brilliant guest!”: Reciprocal compliments on Airbnb
  Irene Cenni & Camilla Vásquez | pp. 117–142
• 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 | pp. 143–169
Forum
• On the nature of pragmatic constituents: Considerations on the semantics/pragmatics debate
  Roberto Graci | pp. 170–184
Book reviews
• Chaoqun Xie, Francisco Yus & Hartmut Haberland (eds.). 2021. Approaches to Internet Pragmatics: Theory and practice
  Reviewed by Shaopeng Li & Yongxiang Yang | pp. 185–189
• Francisco Yus. 2022. Smartphone Communication. Interactions in the App Ecosystem
  Reviewed by Tiancheng Chen & Xinren Chen | pp. 190–195

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