Pragmatics and Society
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Pragmatics and Society puts the spotlight on societal aspects of language use, while incorporating many other facets of society-oriented pragmatic studies. It brings together a variety of approaches to the study of language in context, inspired by different research perspectives and drawing on various disciplines, for instance, sociology, psychology, developmental and cognitive science, anthropology, media research, and computer-related social studies. It is concerned with how language use and social normativity influence and shape each other, for instance, in education (the teaching and acquisition of first and second languages), in political discourse (with its manipulative language use), in the discourse of business and the workplace, and in all kinds of discriminatory uses of language (gender- and class-based or other). Finally, it pays special attention to the impact that our increased dependency on the computer is having on communication and interaction (especially as seen in the social media), as well as to the role of pragmatics in guiding social and racial emancipatory developments. The journal does not accept unsolicited reviews.
Pragmatics and Society publishes its articles Online First.
Latest articles
21 March 2023
Initiating reason-for-the-call action in mundane mobile phone conversation
Ali Kazemi
14 March 2023
Idioms, proverbs and body part expressions on Yiedie “wellbeing” in Akan
Kofi Agyekum
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PS 14:1 (2023) pp. 1–22
“Jerry was a terrific host!” “You were a brilliant guest!”
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Reciprocal compliments on Airbnb
Irene Cenni
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Camilla Vásquez
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PS 14:1 (2023) pp. 117–142
One issue, two genres
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A comparison of interactional metadiscourse in the news
Yun Han Chen
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Ju Chuan Huang
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PS 14:1 (2023) pp. 47–69
On the nature of pragmatic constituents
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Considerations on the semantics/pragmatics debate
Roberto Graci
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PS 14:1 (2023) pp. 170–184
Would you like a bag for that?
Environmental awareness and changing practices for closing buying and selling encounters in retail shopping
Elisabeth Dalby Kristiansen
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Gitte Rasmussen
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PS 14:1 (2023) pp. 143–169
Semiotic manipulation strategies employed in Iranian printed advertisements
Khadijeh Mohamadi
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Hiwa Weisi
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PS 14:1 (2023) pp. 70–89
Disagreement strategies and institutional face attack in Chinese mainstream media editorial comments on Weibo
Jie Xia
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PS 14:1 (2023) pp. 23–46
Metaphor analysis of the COVID-19 public health emergency on Chinese national news media
Cun Zhang
&
Zhengjun Lin
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PS 14:1 (2023) p. 90
Francisco Yus
. 2022. Smartphone Communication. Interactions in the App Ecosystem
Reviewed by
Tiancheng Chen
&
Xinren Chen
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PS 14:1 (2023) pp. 190–195
Chaoqun Xie
,
Francisco Yus
&
Hartmut Haberland
(eds.). 2021. Approaches to Internet Pragmatics: Theory and practice
Reviewed by
Shaopeng Li
&
Yongxiang Yang
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PS 14:1 (2023) pp. 185–189
6 December 2022
Virtual dialogues in monologic political discourse
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Constructing privileged and oppositional future in political speeches
Piotr Cap
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PS 13:5 (2022) pp. 747–768
Doing things with discourse in the mediated political arena
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Participation and pluralism of discursive action
Anita Fetzer
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PS 13:5 (2022) pp. 769–792
When invoked voices blame real politicians
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Confrontational blaming in a speech from Austria’s “commemorative year” 2018
Helmut Gruber
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PS 13:5 (2022) pp. 793–814
Polemic polyphony
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Voices of the fools and the righteous in Sheikh Jarrah, East Jerusalem
Chaim Noy
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PS 13:5 (2022) pp. 815–836
Dialogic language and meta-language in a conflictual discourse
Ohala Spokoiny
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Zohar Livnat
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PS 13:5 (2022) pp. 837–860
Resemblance in comments/posts interaction
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Forms and functions of dialogicity
Elda Weizman
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Ayelet Kohn
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PS 13:5 (2022) pp. 861–884
Dialogic meaning-making in political settings
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An introduction
Elda Weizman
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Zohar Livnat
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PS 13:5 (2022) pp. 731–746
4 November 2022
Situated co-operative creativity
Brian L. Due
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PS 13:4 (2022) pp. 684–702
The performance and relational role of toast intervention in Chinese dining contexts
Jie Li
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Xinren Chen
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PS 13:4 (2022) pp. 625–643
Trust me, trust my words
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Trustworthiness construction in Chinese online medical crowd-funding discourses
Yansheng Mao
&
Xin Zhao
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PS 13:4 (2022) pp. 703–724
Mitigating requesting acts by deaf Jordanian adults
Mohammed Nahar Al-Ali
&
Salsabeel M. Shatat
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PS 13:4 (2022) pp. 663–683
Kwame Nkrumah’s construction of ‘the African people’ via the Unite or Perish myth
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A discourse-historical analysis of populist performance
Mark Nartey
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PS 13:4 (2022) pp. 605–624
The role of prior and actual situational context in conversational routines produced by Chinese learners of English
Yuqi Wang
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PS 13:4 (2022) pp. 585–604
Reduction in and out of context
Jonathan R. White
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PS 13:4 (2022) pp. 555–584
Multivaried acceptance of post-editing in China
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Attitude, practice, and training
Jianwei Zheng
&
Wenjun Fan
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PS 13:4 (2022) pp. 644–662
Emma Betz
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Arnulf Deppermann
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Lorenza Mondada
&
Marja-Leena Sorjonen
. 2021. OKAY across Languages: Toward a Comparative Approach to its Use in Talk-in-interaction
Reviewed by
Theodossia-Soula Pavlidou
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PS 13:4 (2022) pp. 725–729
21 July 2022
From our sisters/to our sisters
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The discursive construction of ideal womanhood in the official magazines of the Islamic State
Carmen Aguilera-Carnerero
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PS 13:3 (2022) pp. 453–476
“They fabricated lies against us and described us in the harshest of ways”
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An analysis of the transitivity patterns used in the online magazine DABIQ
Leanne Bartley
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PS 13:3 (2022) pp. 431–452
“I Am Proud to Be a Traitor”
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The emotion/opinion interplay in jihadist magazines
Miguel-Ángel Benítez-Castro
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Encarnación Hidalgo-Tenorio
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PS 13:3 (2022) pp. 501–531
A semi-supervised algorithm for detecting extremism propaganda diffusion on social media
M. Francisco
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M. Á. Benítez-Castro
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E. Hidalgo-Tenorio
&
Juan L. Castro
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PS 13:3 (2022) pp. 532–554
From image to function
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Automated analysis of online jihadi videos
Javier García-Marín
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Óscar G. Luengo
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PS 13:3 (2022) pp. 383–403
Urban environments favorable to radical narratives
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The case of El Puche
Manuel Moyano
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Jocelyn J. Bélanger
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Roberto M. Lobato
&
Humberto M. Trujillo
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PS 13:3 (2022) pp. 361–382
Approaches to the discourse of terror
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How power relations are represented through forced primings in jihadist magazines
Katie J. Patterson
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Michael T. L. Pace-Sigge
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PS 13:3 (2022) pp. 404–430
Under the shadow of swords: The Rhetoric of Jihad
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A corpus-based critical analysis of religious metaphors in jihadist magazines
Katie J. Patterson
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PS 13:3 (2022) pp. 477–500
Transdisciplinary approaches to the discourse of Islamist extremism
Encarnación Hidalgo-Tenorio
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Juan L. Castro
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PS 13:3 (2022) pp. 353–360
23 June 2022
Politeness in hotel service encounter interactions in Spain
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The receptionist’s point of view
Lucía Fernández-Amaya
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PS 13:2 (2022) pp. 224–249
A study of linguistic manipulations of activating, seeking and creating common ground in intercultural business communication
Chengtuan Li
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PS 13:2 (2022) pp. 169–192
Repetition and paraphrase in contexts of concordant and discordant orientations
Sayamol Panseeta
&
Richard Watson Todd
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PS 13:2 (2022) pp. 250–271
The role of object distance and gender in Persian compliment responses
Mehdi Sarkhosh
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PS 13:2 (2022) pp. 272–294
More than writing on the wall
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An examination of writing and image in a Finnish primary and secondary level learning environment
Timo Savela
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PS 13:2 (2022) pp. 295–321
Clean room, uncomfortable bed
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A corpus analysis of evaluation devices in hotel reviews
Elizaveta Smirnova
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PS 13:2 (2022) pp. 193–223
Language change among Kalhuri Kurdish speakers in Iran
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A gain or in vain?
Javad Yarahmadi
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PS 13:2 (2022) pp. 322–340
Michael Haugh
,
Dániel Z. Kádár
&
Marina Terkourafi
(eds.). 2021. The Cambridge Handbook of Sociopragmatics
Reviewed by
Ruili Su
&
Yanfei Zhang
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PS 13:2 (2022) pp. 346–351
Klaus P. Schneider
&
Elly Ifantidou
(eds.). 2020. Developmental and Clinical Pragmatics
Reviewed by
Kunkun Zhang
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PS 13:2 (2022) pp. 341–345
21 March 2022
Performing right-wing political identities on reader comments pages
Ruth Breeze
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PS 13:1 (2022) p. 85
A sociopragmatic account of religiosity and secularity in fictional narratives
Kamel Abdelbadie Elsaadany
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PS 13:1 (2022) pp. 45–66
The Ethnopragmatics of Jish Arabic-speaking culture
Sandy Habib
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PS 13:1 (2022) pp. 67–84
Using wǒmen (we) to mean s/he in Chinese parents’ interaction
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Interpersonal meanings and relational work
Yanmei Han
&
Tao Xiong
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PS 13:1 (2022) pp. 126–150
Negotiating identities
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First person pronominal use between Japanese university students
Judit Kroo
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PS 13:1 (2022) pp. 22–44
Challenges of trust in atypical interaction
Camilla Lindholm
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Melisa Stevanovic
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PS 13:1 (2022) pp. 107–125
Sociality and moral conflicts
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Migrant stories of relational vulnerability
Rosina Márquez Reiter
&
Dániel Z. Kádár
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PS 13:1 (2022) pp. 1–21
Carmen Taleghani-Nikazm
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Emma Betz
&
Peter Golato
(eds.). 2020. Mobilizing Others: Grammar and lexis within larger activities
Reviewed by
Kamilla Kraft
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PS 13:1 (2022) pp. 157–162
Ulrike Schneider
&
Matthias Eitelmann
(eds.). 2020. Linguistic Inquiries into Donald Trump’s Language. From ‘Fake News’ to ‘Tremendous Success’
Reviewed by
Nelly Tincheva
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PS 13:1 (2022) pp. 151–156
Dawn Archer
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Karen Grainger
&
Piotr Jagodziński
. 2020. Politeness in Professional Contexts
Reviewed by
Maria Tsimpiri
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PS 13:1 (2022) pp. 163–168
7 February 2022
Sociality in complex, multi-layered, technoscapes
Christian Licoppe
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PS 12:5 (2021) pp. 850–856
Polymedia life
Mirca Madianou
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PS 12:5 (2021) pp. 857–864
Idioms of polymediated practices and the techno-social accomplishment of co-presence in transnational families
Heike Monika Greschke
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PS 12:5 (2021) pp. 828–849
‘I’m not a tech person’
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Negotiation of academic personas in polymedia environments
Carmen Lee
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Dennis Chau
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PS 12:5 (2021) pp. 805–827
Polymedia and family multilingualism
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Linguistic repertoires and relationships in digitally mediated interaction
Kristin Vold Lexander
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PS 12:5 (2021) pp. 782–804
The metapragmatics of mode choice
Andreas Candefors Stæhr
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Thomas Rørbeck Nørreby
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PS 12:5 (2021) pp. 756–781
Polymedia repertoires of networked individuals
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A day-in-the-life approach
Caroline Tagg
&
Agnieszka Lyons
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PS 12:5 (2021) pp. 725–755
Laura Hidalgo-Downing
&
Blanca Mujic Kraljevic
(eds.). 2020. Performing Metaphoric Creativity across Modes and Contexts
Reviewed by
Thomas Wiben Jensen
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PS 12:5 (2021) pp. 870–874
Andreas H. Jucker
. 2020. Politeness in the History of English – From the Middle Ages to the Present Day
Reviewed by
Dániel Z. Kádár
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PS 12:5 (2021) pp. 865–869
Polymedia in interaction
Jannis Androutsopoulos
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PS 12:5 (2021) pp. 707–724
29 October 2021
Motivation and attitudes of Israeli Druze schoolchildren toward L2 Hebrew compared to Modern Standard
Arabic
Randa Khair Abbas
&
Vered Vaknin-Nusbaum
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PS 12:4 (2021) pp. 591–611
Compliments and compliment responses in Egyptian and Saudi Arabic
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A variational pragmatic comparison
Dina Abdel Salam El-Dakhs
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PS 12:4 (2021) pp. 537–566
“Boom! You bought them.”
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A metalinguistic analysis of Apple infomercials based on Aristotle’s modes of persuasion
Alireza Jalilifar
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Soheil Saidian
&
Said Nazari
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PS 12:4 (2021) pp. 567–590
Painting the state in the text
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A pragmatic analysis of Remi Raji’s A Harvest of Laughters
Ruth Karachi Benson Oji
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PS 12:4 (2021) pp. 649–668
(Neo)liberalizing the state – Privatization of core government competencies
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A CDA approach
Johannes Scherling
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PS 12:4 (2021) pp. 612–648
Gratitude communication in academic written acknowledgement
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Gender variation
Chihsia Tang
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PS 12:4 (2021) pp. 515–536
Withholding consent
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How citizens resist expert responses by positioning themselves as ‘the ones to be convinced’
Lotte van Burgsteden
&
Hedwig te Molder
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PS 12:4 (2021) pp. 669–695
Istvan Kecskes
. 2019. English as a Lingua Franca: The Pragmatic Perspective
Reviewed by
Yahui Chu
&
Jing Chen
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PS 12:4 (2021) 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
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PS 12:4 (2021) pp. 701–705
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Main BIC Subject
CFG: Semantics, Pragmatics, Discourse Analysis
Main BISAC Subject
LAN009000: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General