Latest articles

23 March 2023

  • The pragmatics of alternative futures in political discourses: Legitimising the politics of preemption in Trump’s discourse on Iran
    Ali Basarati, Hadaegh Rezaei & Mohammad Amouzadeh

    • 7 March 2023

  • Concepts and context in relevance-theoretic pragmatics: New developments
    Agnieszka Piskorska & Manuel Padilla Cruz

    • 24 February 2023

  • Non-literal uses of proper names in XYZ constructions: A relevance theory perspective
    Ewa Wałaszewska
  • If I testify about others, my testimony is valid: A study of other-justified discourses in Chinese online medical crowdfunding
    Xin Zhao & Yansheng Mao

    • 17 January 2023

  • Korean imperatives at two different speech levels: Alternate ways of taking part in others’ actions and affairs
    Mary Shin Kim
  • “Let’s … together”: Rapport management in Chinese directive public signs
    Xiaochun Sun & Xinren Chen

    • 10 January 2023

  • Intergenerational interviews in Negev Arabic: Negotiating lexical, discursive and cultural gaps
    Roni Henkin

    • 1 December 2022

  • How broadcasters enhance rapport with viewers in live streaming commerce: A genre-based discourse analysis
    Xingsong Shi & Huanqin Dou

    • 28 November 2022

  • Hong Kong Cantonese TV talk shows: When code-switching manifests as impoliteness
    Cher Leng Lee & Daoning Zhu

    • 24 November 2022

  • Japanese no datta and no de atta in written discourse: Past forms of no da and no de aru
    Hironori Nishi

    • 14 November 2022

  • Has madam read ? A procedural account of the T/V forms in Polish
    Agnieszka Piskorska
  • Overlaps in collaboration adjustments: A cross-genre study of female university students’ interactions in American English and Japanese
    Lala U. Takeda

    • 7 November 2022

  • Ad hoc concepts and the relevance heuristics: A false paradox?
    Benoît Leclercq

    • 31 October 2022

  • Nigerian stand-up comediennes performing femininity: A pragmatic analysis
    Ibukun Filani
  • Paralanguage and ad hoc concepts
    Manuel Padilla Cruz

    • 24 October 2022

  • Japanese turn-final tteyuu as a formulation device
    Yuki Arita

    • 14 October 2022

  • How to be authentic on Instagram: Self-presentation and language choice of Basque university students in a multi-scalar context
    Agurtzane Elordui & Jokin Aiestaran

    • 4 October 2022

  • Power dynamics and pragma-cultural sources of unsourced evidentiality in Persian
    Amin Zaini & Hossein Shokouhi | PRAG 33:1 (2023) p. 99

    • 22 September 2022

  • The son (érzi) is not really a son: Generalization of address terms in Chinese online discourse
    Kun Yang & Jing Chen | PRAG 33:1 (2023) pp. 78–98

    • 6 September 2022

  • Deceptive clickbaits in the relevance-theoretic lens: What makes them similar to punchlines
    Maria Jodłowiec
  • ‘That is very important, isn’t it?’: Content-oriented questions in British and Montenegrin university lectures
    Branka Živković | PRAG 33:1 (2023) pp. 124–153

    • 1 August 2022

  • Perceptual resemblance and the communication of emotion in digital contexts: A case of emoji and reaction GIFs
    Ryoko Sasamoto

    • 13 June 2022

  • Development of the use of discourse markers across different fluency levels of CEFR: A learner corpus analysis
    Lan-fen Huang, Yen-liang Lin & Tomáš Gráf | PRAG 33:1 (2023) pp. 49–77

    • 8 June 2022

  • The use of boosters and evidentials in British campaign debates on the Brexit referendum
    María Luisa Carrió-Pastor & Ana Albalat-Mascarell | PRAG 33:1 (2023) pp. 1–22

    • 19 April 2022

  • An empirical study of Chinese university student advisors’ dynamic identity construction in the context of individual consultation
    Jing Chen & Xin Zhao | PRAG 33:1 (2023) pp. 23–48

    • 14 April 2022

  • Picking fights with politicians: Categories, partitioning and the achievement of antagonism
    Jack B. Joyce & Linda Walz | PRAG 32:4 (2022) pp. 562–587

    • 25 March 2022

  • Accounts as acts of identity: Justifying business closures on COVID-19 public signs in Athens and London
    Spyridoula Bella & Eva Ogiermann | PRAG 32:4 (2022) pp. 620–647

    • 9 March 2022

  • Aspects of væ (‘and’) as a discourse marker in Persian
    Reza Kazemian & Mohammad Amouzadeh | PRAG 32:4 (2022) pp. 588–619

    • 24 February 2022

  • Shifting perspective on indexicals
    Mark Bowker | PRAG 32:4 (2022) pp. 518–536

    • 8 February 2022

  • ‘So many “virologists” in this thread!’: Impoliteness in Facebook discussions of the management of the pandemic of Covid-19 in Sweden – the tension between conformity and distinction
    Marta Andersson | PRAG 32:4 (2022) pp. 489–517

    • 20 December 2021

  • The metapragmatics of legal advice communication in the field of immigration law
    Marie Jacobs | PRAG 32:4 (2022) pp. 537–561

    • 15 December 2021

  • Referring to arbitrary entities with placeholders
    Tohru Seraku | PRAG 32:3 (2022) pp. 426–451

    • 1 December 2021

  • On the dialogic frames of mirative enunciations: The Argentine Spanish discourse marker mirá and the expression of surprise
    María Marta García Negroni & Manuel Libenson | PRAG 32:3 (2022) pp. 329–353

    • 30 November 2021

  • Discoursal representation of masculine parenting in Arabic and English websites
    Mohammed Nahar Al-Ali & Hanan A. Shatat | PRAG 32:3 (2022) pp. 403–425

    • 23 November 2021

  • Epistemic calibration: Achieving affiliation through access claims and generalizations
    Emmi Koskinen & Melisa Stevanovic | PRAG 32:3 (2022) pp. 354–380
  • Spatializing kinship: The grammar of belonging in Amdo, Tibet
    Shannon M. Ward | PRAG 32:3 (2022) pp. 452–487

    • 5 November 2021

  • Material and embodied resources in the accomplishment of closings in technology-mediated business meetings
    Tuire Oittinen | PRAG 32:2 (2022) pp. 299–327