Topics

A

Activity types and pragmatic acts

Jef Verschueren & Frank Brisard

Age and language use

Christina Englert & Agnes Engbersen

Agency and language

Laura M. Ahearn

Walter De Mulder

Peter R. R. White

Argumentation in discourse and grammar

Roberta Piazza & Melanie Green

Argument structure

Adele E. Goldberg

Attention and language

Maxim I. Stamenov & Elena Andonova

John Wilson & Karyn Stapleton

Agustin Vicente, Zuriñe Abalos, Isabel Martin-Gonzalez, Sara Ramos-Cabo & Elena Castroviejo

B

Bilingualism and multilingualism

Jeanine Treffers-Daller

C

Case and semantic roles

Brygida Rudzka-Ostyn

Caste and language

Rukmini Bhaya Nair

Sonia Vandepitte

Cerebral division of labour in verbal communication

Stef Slembrouck

Carol M. Eastman

Code-switching and translanguaging

Rakesh M. Bhatt & Agnes Bolonyai

Cohesion and coherence

Wolfram Bublitz

Collaboration in dialogues

Collocation and colligation

Communicative dynamism

Communicative style

Margret Selting

Communicative success vs. failure

Andrea Rodriguez

Comprehension vs. production

J. Cooper Cutting

Computer-mediated communication

Alexandra Georgakopoulou

Conceptual integration

Consciousness and language

Context and contextualization

Control phenomena

Benjamin Lyngfelt

Conventions of language

Conversational implicature

Robin Tolmach Lakoff

Conversational storytelling

Conversation types

Creativity in language use

Marie-Luise Pitzl

Creoles and creolization

Salikoko Mufwene

Jürgen Jaspers

Cultural Scripts

Srikant Sarangi

D

Default interpretations

Katarzyna M. Jaszczolt

Dell Hymes and communicative competence

Paul V. Kroskrity

Developmental dyslexia

Joanna Nijakowska

Ronald Macaulay

Directives (with a special emphasis on requests)

Nicolas Ruytenbeek

Discourse markers

E

Elite multilingualism

Elisabeth Barakos

Embodied interaction

Emily Hofstetter & Leelo Keevallik

Liesbet Quaeghebeur

Emotion display

Emotions: A philosophical and cognitive perspective

Gerda Eva Lauerbach

Énonciation : French pragmatic approach(es)

Marjut Johansson & Eija Suomela-Salmi

Zhuo Jing-Schmidt

Event representation

F

Feminism and language

Figures of Speech

Manfred Kienpointner

Formulaic language

Natalia Filatkina

Functional sentence perspective

G

Robin Tolmach Lakoff

H

Hartmut Haberland

Martina Björklund

Judith T. Irvine

Salvatore Attardo

I

Elżbieta Tabakowska

Florian Coulmas

Simo Määttä & Sari Pietikäinen

Implicature and language change

Marcella Bertuccelli Papi

Jonathan Culpeper

Indeterminacy and negotiation

Mara Sofia T. Zanotto & Heronides M. Melo Moura

Tomi Visakko & Heini Lehtonen

Indexicals and Demonstratives

Nicolas Ruytenbeek

Information structure

Jeanette K. Gundel & Thorstein Fretheim

Institutional interaction

Aino Koivisto & Jarkko Niemi

Intercultural communication

Volker Hinnenkamp

Felix K. Ameka & David P. Wilkins

Interpreter-mediated interaction

Cecilia Wadensjö

Intertextuality

Stef Slembrouck

J

Luisa Martín Rojo

L

Language acquisition

Steven Gillis & Dorit Ravid

Language and the Law

Philipp Sebastian Angermeyer

Language change

Language contact

Language dominance and minorization

Language ecology

Tove Skutnabb-Kangas & Robert Phillipson

Language ideologies

Paul V. Kroskrity

Language learning in immersion and CLIL classrooms

Tarja Nikula & Karita Mård-Miettinen

Language maintenance and shift

Louisa Willoughby

Language policy, language planning and standardization

Robert K. Herbert

Language rights

Tove Skutnabb-Kangas

Phillip Glenn & Elizabeth Holt

Lexically triggered veridicality inferences

Aaron Steven White

Dorien Van De Mieroop & Jonathan Clifton

Jacob Thøgersen & Inge Lise Pedersen

Listener response

Jenny Cook-Gumperz

M

Andreas H. Jucker

Mediated performatives

Metalinguistic awareness

Elizabeth Mertz & Jonathan Yovel

Miriam Taverniers

Klaus-Uwe Panther & Günter Radden

Mianzi/lian: Chinese notions of face

Ling Zhou & Shaojie Zhang

Michael Alexander Kirkwood (M. A. K.) Halliday

Jonathan James Webster

Zoltán Dörnyei

Motivation and language

The multilingual lexicon

Anders Björkvall

N

Alexandra Georgakopoulou

Nigerian hospital setting discourse

Nils Erik Enkvist

Jan-Ola Östman & Tuija Virtanen

Non-verbal communication

Lluís Payrató

O

Obscenity, slurs, and taboo

Ọmọlúàbí

Orthography and cognition

Dominiek Sandra

‘Other’ representation

Nikolas Coupland

P

Perception and language

Perspectives on language and cognition: From empiricism to rationalism and back again

Dominiek Sandra

Phatic communion

Pluricentric languages

Catrin Norrby, Jan Lindström, Jenny Nilsson & Camilla Wide

Gabriele Kasper

Claudia Brugman

Posthumanism and pragmatics

Leonie Cornips, Ana Deumert & Alastair Pennycook

Poststructuralist discourse theory

Power and the role of language

Luisa Martín Rojo

Pragmatic acquisition

Sandrine Zufferey

Pragmatic markers

Karin Aijmer & Anne-Marie Simon-Vandenbergen

Pragmatic particles

Pragmatics of script

Nishaant Choksi

Predicates and predication

J. Lachlan Mackenzie & Daniel García Velasco

Francesca Delogu

Primate communication

Michael Tomasello

Elizabeth Couper-Kuhlen

Public discourse

Srikant Sarangi

R

Reference and descriptions

Norbert Dittmar

Relational ritual

Dániel Z. Kádár

Reported speech

Revisiting talk in space: The inescapable mobility of social interaction

Elwys De Stefani & Lorenza Mondada

S

Social class and language

Social institutions

Richard J. Watts

Sound symbolism

Speech community

Hiroko Takanashi

Style and styling

Janus Mortensen & Nikolas Coupland

Susan Ervin-Tripp: Context, social interaction and pragmatics

Kristy Beers Fägersten & Karyn Stapleton

T

Ta’ārof: Pragmatic key to Iranian social behavior

William O. Beeman

Tactile sign languages

Louisa Willoughby, Shimako Iwasaki, Meredith Bartlett & Howard Manns

Valeria Sinkeviciute

Tense and aspect

Robert I. Binnick

Terms of address

Friederike Braun

Text comprehension

Morten Pilegaard & Finn Frandsen

Therapeutic conversation

Liisa Voutilainen & Anssi Peräkylä

Hartmut Haberland & Janus Mortensen

Jocelyne Vincent Marrelli

U

William B. McGregor

W

Marianne Mithun

Workplace interaction

Meredith Marra, Bernadette Vine & Janet Holmes

Y

Andreas Candefors Stæhr, Janus Spindler Møller & Marie Maegaard