Pragmatics and Society

Volume 7, Issue 3 (2016)

2016.  v, 168 pp.
Publishing status: Available
Table of Contents
Articles
Complimenting behaviour on Facebook: Responding to compliments in American English
María Elena Placencia, Amanda Lower and Hebe Powell
339–365
Argument in professional-client encounters: Building cases through second-hand assessments
Janne Solberg
366–390
Reformulating the question in US Presidential debates: A device for adjusting the question and the subsequent answer to one's audience
Ronald R. Jacobsen
391–412
Language choice in multilingual religious settings: The historical factor
Antoine Willy Ndzotom Mbakop
413–435
Discursive pragmatics of T-shirt inscriptions: Constructing the self, context and social aspirations
Innocent Chiluwa and Esther Ajiboye
436–462
The role of metapragmatic expressions as pragmatic manipulation in a TV panel discussion program
Ping Liu and Yongping Ran
463–481
Enacting and negotiating power relations through teasing in distributed leadership constellations
Seongsook Choi and Stephanie Schnurr
482–502
Book Review
Review of Chiluwa (2011): Labeling and Ideology in the Press: A Corpus-based Critical Discourse Study of the Niger Delta Crisis
Reviewed by Mark Nartey
503–506
Subjects

Main BIC Subject

CFG: Semantics, Pragmatics, Discourse Analysis

Main BISAC Subject

LAN009000: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General