This paper centers on the incorporation of discourse-pragmatic characteristics from English into Serbian, presenting the term ‘pragmatic Anglicisms’ to indicate a set of (in)directly borrowed forms from English with pragmatic functions. It proposes a descriptive and taxonomic framework for the inquiry of pragmatic Anglicisms in Serbian and examines their formal and functional features, as well as sociolinguistic, sociopragmatic and sociocultural aspects of their use, linked to the users, registers, stylistic and communicative markedness, motivational factors, perception and assessment by Serbian native speakers, post hoc effects, and cultural impact. Apart from the commonly identified classes, such as interjections and discourse markers, the article recognizes the use of (calqued) discourse formulas from English in situations where there are either existing Serbian ones or a discourse ‘gap’ (i.e. when both the previously non-existent communicative act and the formulaic expression are adopted from English). This subclass is particularly interesting since it is not only a novel linguistic element that is thus introduced, but a novel communication and cultural pattern from the Anglo-American globalizing culture that gets adopted through new discourse formulas.