Pragmatics and Society

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Editor-in-Chief
ORCiD logo with linkDaria Dayter | Tampere University |
Co-editors
ORCiD logo with linkHelena Halmari | Sam Houston State University
Special Issues Editor
ORCiD logo with linkHermine Penz | Karl Franzens University of Graz
Review Editor
ORCiD logo with linkJessica Aiston | Queen Mary University of London |
Founding Editor
Jacob L. Mey | University of Southern Denmark

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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.

ISSN: 1878-9714 | E-ISSN: 1878‑9722
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Latest articles

15 October 2026

  • Building charisma and trust with prosodic constructions: The role of phrase-final pitch and tempo dynamics
    Oliver Niebuhr & Vered Silber-Varod | PS 17:5 (2026) pp. 555–575
  • 14 October 2026

  • The pragmatics of trusting (artificial) others
    Kerstin Fischer & Bracha Nir | PS 17:5 (2026) pp. 549–554
  • 12 October 2026

  • What AI pretends to be? Design rhetoric and trust in the appearances of AI applications
    Kenny K. N. Chow | PS 17:5 (2026) pp. 662–682
  • Pragmatics-zombies: Trust and communication in the age of artificial intelligence
    Erez Firt & Bracha Nir | PS 17:5 (2026) pp. 706–727
  • Addressing trust and distrust in artificial intelligence in newspaper texts: A discourse linguistic investigation
    Monika Hanauska & Annette Leßmöllmann | PS 17:5 (2026) pp. 621–644
  • Theoretical and methodological perspectives on the interrelation of authenticity and trustworthiness in human‑agent interaction
    Glenda Hannibal & Astrid Weiss | PS 17:5 (2026) pp. 728–751
  • Six guidelines for trustworthy, ethical and responsible automation design
    Matouš Jelínek, Nadine Schlicker & Ewart de Visser | PS 17:5 (2026) pp. 683–705
  • Speakers’ responsibility for evidential claims: Believe me, I saw it!
    Mélinda Pozzi & Diana Mazzarella | PS 17:5 (2026) pp. 599–620
  • From persuasion techniques to pragmatic mechanisms: Unpacking the language of propaganda in English
    Nele Põldvere, Radoslava Trnavac & Silje Susanne Alvestad
  • Elena Semino, Paul Baker, Gavin Brookes, Luke Collins & Tony McEnery. 2025. Applying Corpus Linguistics to Illness and Healthcare
    Reviewed by Angeliki Lampropoulou
  • 6 October 2026

  • Exploring metadiscourse in preface sections in textbooks: Variations across disciplines
    Aisha S. Alsubhi & Hmoud S. Alotaibi
  • Why overtrust in social robots is inevitable
    Kerstin Fischer | PS 17:5 (2026) pp. 645–661
  • Optimizing trust beliefs through interactional framing: Effects of organizational reciprocity and visual embodiment on online self-disclosure
    Felix Nti Koranteng, Jaap Ham, Zhenyu Zhu & Jettie Hoonhout | PS 17:5 (2026) pp. 576–598
  • How do you take a neutral stance on something? Exploring the complex dynamics of corporate activism in the UK
    Mhairi Rundell & Ursula Lutzky
  • Francisco Yus. 2025. Emoji Pragmatics
    Reviewed by Jialiang Chen
  • 24 September 2026

  • Bo Wang & Yuanyi Ma (eds.). 2025. Introducing Chinese Discourse: Methods of Analysis Empowered by Systemic Functional Linguistics
    Reviewed by Run Wang & Hui Yu
  • 17 September 2026

  • Towards an interdisciplinary definition of pragmatics
    Muteb Alqarni
  • 15 September 2026

  • Navigating the continuum of harmful speech: Racist discourse and the escalation to violence on social media
    Dimitra Filippou & Spyridoula Bella
  • 4 September 2026

  • The use of stance markers for identity construction: A comparative study of Chinese hotel responses to online positive and negative reviews
    Jingjing Huang & Yan Wang
  • Pragmatic-rhetorical strategies employed by Prophet Mohammad in Hadiths on faith
    Fathi Migdadi & Rasheed Al-Jarrah
  • Indexicality, shared knowledge, and embodiment in heritage language contexts
    Mohammed Nofal
  • 1 September 2026

  • Sandrine Zufferey & Jacques Moeschler. 2025. Studying Meaning: Semantics and Pragmatics
    Reviewed by Hanhui Li & Fan Yang
  • 31 August 2026

  • Reaction buttons as backchannels
    Bethany Aull
  • Impersonality as a mitigation strategy in Chinese and Spanish Tinder self-praise
    Shuo Peng
  • Inclusion, presupposition, and pragmatic markers: Functions of guardare ‘look’ and vedere ‘see’ in Italian parliamentary debates
    Tanja Trebucchi & Chiara Ghezzi
  • Scott Burnett. 2026. Analysing Environmental Discourse: A Critical Approach
    Reviewed by Izabella Schleier
  • 25 August 2026

  • Impoliteness as an indexical marker of flirtatious teasing in Andrew Marvell’s To His Coy Mistress
    Opeyemi Emmanuel Olawe, Olaide Morolayo Babalola, Dunsin Oyindamola Adeosun & Oluwadamilola Temitope Akinyemi
  • 4 August 2026

  • Membership categorization in children’s pretend play
    Eric Hauser & Younhee Kim
  • Metonymy, metaphor, and multimodal civic meaning-making in children’s tax-themed postcards
    Xiaoben Yuan
  • 31 July 2026

  • Chinese danmuers’ perception of sex‑related language in the American TV sitcom Friends : A critical discourse analysis of subtitle comments in Bilibili
    Huabin Wang, Jia Zhang & Ying Wang
  • 30 July 2026

  • Building resilience through dialogic resonance: Pandemic discourse in Chinese podcasts
    Ying Tong & Chaoqun Xie
  • 7 July 2026

  • Emotions in Western coverage of China during the COVID-19 pandemic: Accountability over healing
    Tian-ran Wang & Shelley Ching-yu Depner
  • Persuasive pragmatics in US presidential campaign discourse: A corpus-based comparison of Trump and Harris in the 2024 election
    Haoran Xia & Yuchen Xu
  • Speech acts in institutional communication on fire prevention: Analysis of the linguistic landscape in the Qinling Mountains, China
    Baiqi Zhao
  • 2 July 2026

  • Dorien Van De Mieroop, Federica Previtali & Melina De Dijn. 2025. Ageism in Job Interviews: A Multimodal Discourse Analytical Perspective
    Reviewed by Jingli Chen
  • 2 June 2026

  • How thanking serves as a face-repaying act? A contrastive study of Chinese and Japanese thanking on Social Media
    Qi Xiao & Ling Zhou
  • Reijirō Aoyama, Tomoko Akashi & David C.S. Li (eds.). 2020. Ringafuranka to shite no nihongo [Japanese as a Lingua Franca]
    Reviewed by Patrick Heinrich
  • Sanna-Kaisa Tanskanen, Lotta Lehti, Kristin Vold Lexander, Mikko T. Virtanen & Chaoqun Xie (eds.). 2024. Explorations in Internet Pragmatics: Intentionality, Identity, and Interpersonal Interaction
    Reviewed by Chenxuan Zhang & Chengtuan Li
  • 21 May 2026

  • Casting nets, keeping fish: fishing metaphors in China’s digital dating ocean
    Amber Wanwen Wang, Kathleen Ahrens & Winnie Zeng
  • 19 May 2026

  • Failed execution in inferential pragmatics: Rethinking felicity conditions through underdetermined discourse
    Francesco Mercadante
  • 12 May 2026

  • Francisco Yus. 2025. Emoji Pragmatics
    Reviewed by Sujue Nan & Yule Peng
  • 4 May 2026

  • “Can eat less? Big elder sister”: Address and (im)politeness in danmu video comments
    Yongping Ran & Xiaoyi Bi
  • Signs of belonging: Unveiling the superdiverse tapestry of City Road’s linguistic landscape
    José María Santos Rovira
  • Saulutė Juzelėnienė, Skirmantė Šarkauskienė & Rita Baranauskienė (eds.). 2024. Approaches to Multimodality: Rhetoric and Stylistics in Public Discourse
    Reviewed by Rongbin Wang & Xinyuan Yu
  • 14 April 2026

  • A corpus-based study of the shifts of evidentiality in the institutional interpreting of Chinese political discourse
    Guangjun Wu & Jiamin Wang
  • Eleonora Esposito & Majid KhosraviNik. 2024. Discourse in the Digital Age: Social Media, Power and Society
    Reviewed by Jiali Cao & Yuhong Liu
  • 8 April 2026

  • Speaking of workplaces in the time of Covid-19: Naming and digital placemaking in the Nordics
    Alexandra Petrulevich, Emilia Aldrin, Väinö Syrjälä & Line Sandst | PS 17:4 (2026) pp. 411–432
  • 27 March 2026

  • Rong Lei. 2025. The Pragmatics of Managing Negative Emotions in a Chinese Context
    Reviewed by Ying Jing & Zhou-min Yuan
  • 27 February 2026

  • Zhengpeng Luo. 2026. Genetic Literacy in Direct-to-Consumer Genetic Testing: A Discursive Approach to Public Engagement with Genetic Science
    Reviewed by Ling Shen
  • 13 February 2026

  • Ying Jin. 2025. The Discourse of Comfort in Chinese Online Medical Consultations
    Reviewed by Guoer Leng & Xiaoli Wang
  • 22 January 2026

  • Michael Haugh & Rosina Márquez Reiter. 2024. Morality in Discourse
    Reviewed by Jing Han & Yongping Ran
  • 5 January 2026

  • Hair or fist: Framing a movement through visual metaphtonymy
    Somayeh Hatamzadeh-Esfahani & Reza Kazemian | PS 17:4 (2026) pp. 505–529
  • 18 December 2025

  • Social deconstruction and power negotiation: A discursive study of “Africa and the world” on TED talk
    Tolulope Deborah Iredele & Augustine Uzoma Nwagbara
  • 16 December 2025

  • Edward Schiappa. 2022. The Transgender Exigency: Defining Sex and Gender in the 21st Century
    Reviewed by Wei Wang & Lei Zhu
  • 15 December 2025

  • Unveiling the sex differences and their diachronic changes of thanking in spoken British English: A local grammar based investigation
    Hang Su, Jun Ye & Ziyi Xiong | PS 17:4 (2026) pp. 479–504
  • Emma Moore. 2024. Socio-Syntax: Exploring the Social Life of Grammar
    Reviewed by Jiali Cao & Yuhong Liu
  • Pilar Garcés-Conejos Blitvich. 2024. Pragmatics, (Im)politeness, and Intergroup Communication: A Multilayered, Discursive Analysis of Cancel Culture
    Reviewed by Lin Qiu & Kun Yang
  • 4 December 2025

  • Lucien Brown & Soung-U Kim. 2025. Politeness Metapragmatics: Inductive Research, Multimodality and Critical Theory
    Reviewed by Wei Wang & Xingbing Liu
  • 2 December 2025

  • Mihaela Popa-Wyatt. 2024. Harmful Speech and Contestation
    Reviewed by Ruby Rong Wei & Xiao Chen
  • 28 November 2025

  • Andreea S. Calude. 2024. The Linguistics of Social Media: An Introduction
    Reviewed by Qi Dong & Qingsheng Jiang
  • 27 November 2025

  • Juliane House & Dániel Z. Kádár. 2024. Cross-Cultural Pragmatics and Foreign Language Learning
    Reviewed by Hossein Davari & Masoud Dehghan
  • Juliane House & Dániel Z. Kádár. 2025. Language and Politics: A Cross-Cultural Pragmatic Perspective
    Reviewed by Li Jiaoting & Sun Yongmei
  • Francisco Yus. 2023. Pragmatics of Internet Humour
    Reviewed by Jidong Wu & Xinman Liu
  • 25 November 2025

  • Chiara Degano, Dora Renna & Francesca Santulli. 2024. Persuasion in Specialized Discourse
    Reviewed by Zhenghao Rong & Jianfei Sun | PS 17:4 (2026) pp. 542–547
  • Yanmei Han & Guowen Shang. 2024. The Linguistic Landscape in China: Commodification, Image Construction, Contestations and Negotiations
    Reviewed by Yunhe Zhao & Qiao Huang | PS 17:4 (2026) pp. 530–535
  • Kevin A. Whitehead, Elizabeth Stokoe & Geoffrey Raymond. 2025. Categories in Social Interaction
    Reviewed by Zhiwei Zhao & Chengtuan Li | PS 17:4 (2026) pp. 536–541
  • 12 November 2025

  • “And the right wants to hang and relax”: Some features of impairment talk
    Emilie Munch Nicolaisen & Gitte Rasmussen | PS 17:4 (2026) pp. 455–478
  • 11 November 2025

  • Foreign relations law as an interdiscursive continuum: A comparative genre-pragmatic analysis
    Le Cheng & Xiaobin Zhu | PS 17:4 (2026) pp. 433–454
  • 9 October 2025

  • Assigning ‘sacred’ meaning to songs: A pragmatic perspective
    Antoine Willy Ndzotom Mbakop | PS 17:2 (2026) pp. 268–288
  • 22 September 2025

  • The use of transformative and extended responses in conducting sales work in product demonstration workshops
    Piia Mikkola, Jarkko Niemi & Riikka Nissi | PS 17:3 (2026) pp. 382–405
  • 19 September 2025

  • The evolution of protectionism metaphors in English-language media: A diachronic study across China, the UK, and the US (2001–2019)
    Dongman Cai | PS 17:3 (2026) pp. 356–381
  • Address forms and self-reference practices in Kenya: A semio-cultural conceptualization perspective
    Mohammad Hossein Keshavarz & Maureen Kajuju Murori Panagiotou | PS 17:2 (2026) pp. 245–267
  • Lorenza Mondada & Ansi Peräkylä (eds.). 2023. New Perspectives on Goffman in Language and Interaction: Body, Participation and the Self
    Reviewed by Yang Yue | PS 17:3 (2026) pp. 406–410
  • 15 September 2025

  • Noun forms of address among matatu touts in multilingual Kenya: Pragmatic functions beyond politeness theory
    Billian Khalayi Otundo | PS 17:2 (2026) pp. 223–244
  • 26 August 2025

  • Identity dynamics in text messaging: A case study of Chinese private tutors’ communication accommodation on WeChat
    Jiannan Song | PS 17:3 (2026) pp. 335–355
  • 28 July 2025

  • The discursive construction of femininity in metacommentaries on a rape-joke in Nigeria
    Ibukun Filani | PS 17:2 (2026) pp. 196–222
  • 17 July 2025

  • The role of well as a response-delaying marker in side story insertions
    Ryo Takamura | PS 17:3 (2026) pp. 315–334
  • 23 June 2025

  • A multimodal analysis of a Japanese TV commercial: A case study of ethnopoetic texts and beyond
    Kuniyoshi Kataoka | PS 16:4 (2025) pp. 471–493
  • Societal pragmatics: Illocutionary and perlocutionary effects reinforced/mitigated by the use of the grammaticalized honorific system in Japanese
    Etsuko Oishi | PS 16:4 (2025) pp. 518–547
  • 16 June 2025

  • The pragmatics of communication in traditional ritual performance (Japanese kagura): Pragmemic triggers as performative acts
    William O. Beeman | PS 16:4 (2025) pp. 494–517
  • Martin Gill, Aino Malmivirta & Brita Wårvik (eds.). 2024. Structures in Discourse: Interaction, adaptability, and pragmatic functions
    Reviewed by Ylva Biri | PS 17:2 (2026) pp. 289–293
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    ORCiD logo with linkDaria Dayter | Tampere University |
    Co-editors
    ORCiD logo with linkHelena Halmari | Sam Houston State University
    Special Issues Editor
    ORCiD logo with linkHermine Penz | Karl Franzens University of Graz
    Review Editor
    ORCiD logo with linkJessica Aiston | Queen Mary University of London |
    Founding Editor
    Jacob L. Mey | University of Southern Denmark
    Advisory Board
    ORCiD logo with linkWilliam O. Beeman | University of Minnesota
    ORCiD logo with linkMary Bucholtz | University of California, Santa Barbara
    ORCiD logo with linkLe Cheng | Zhejiang University
    ORCiD logo with linkFrançois Cooren | Université de Montréal
    ORCiD logo with linkLouise Cummings | Hong Kong Polytechnic University
    ORCiD logo with linkRaymond W. Gibbs, Jr. | Independent Cognitive Scientist
    William F. Hanks | University of California, Berkeley
    ORCiD logo with linkMichael Haugh | University of Queensland
    Sachiko Ide | Japan's Women's University
    Elizabeth Keating | University of Texas at Austin
    ORCiD logo with linkHans J. Ladegaard | Hong Kong Polytechnic University
    ORCiD logo with linkTheo van Leeuwen | University of Southern Denmark
    ORCiD logo with link Li Wei | University College London
    ORCiD logo with linkMeredith Marra | Victoria University of Wellington
    ORCiD logo with linkAkin Odebunmi | University of Ibadan
    ORCiD logo with linkTheodossia-Soula Pavlidou | Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
    ORCiD logo with linkSofia Rüdiger | Freie Universität Berlin
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