Latest articles

10 June 2024

  • “It’s nothing serious, take it easy”: Chinese doctors’ emotion-regulating discourses on the online medical consultation websites
    Qingsheng Jiang, Yansheng Mao & Yihang Wang

    • 14 May 2024

  • A relevance-theoretic analysis of Colloquial Singapore English hor
    Junwen Lee
  • Metaphors to describe sanctions against Iran in American and Iranian newspapers
    Rasoul Mohammad Hosseinpur & Mahdi Mansouri

    • 6 May 2024

  • Prosodic features of polite speech: Evidence from Korean interactional data
    Lucien Brown, Grace Eunhae Oh & Kaori Idemaru

    • 30 April 2024

  • Why not focus on combating the virus? On the active and passive egocentrism in communications
    Baiyao Zuo

    • 18 April 2024

  • The use of the non-lexical sound öö in Hungarian same-turn self-repair
    Zsuzsanna Németh

    • 14 March 2024

  • ‘Where have you been hiding this voice?’: Judges’ compliments on the TV talent show Arab Idol
    Fathi Migdadi, Muhammad A. Badarneh & Areej Qudaisat

    • 1 March 2024

  • Embodied interaction with face masks and social distancing: Brazilian health care workers’ daily routines in pandemic times
    Ulrike Schröder & Sineide Gonçalves

    • 29 January 2024

  • Multiple repair solutions in response to open class repair initiators (OCRIs) in next turn: The case of hospitality and tourism service encounters in English as a lingua franca (ELF)
    Aonrumpa Thongphut & Jagdish Kaur

    • 19 January 2024

  • How face is perceived in Chinese and Japanese: A contrastive study
    Qi Xiao & Ling Zhou | PRAG 34:2 (2024) pp. 264–292

    • 9 January 2024

  • Move combinations in the conclusion section of applied linguistics research articles
    Tomoyuki Kawase

    • 28 November 2023

  • What kind of laughter? The triple function of “Hhh” as a contempt, intention, and interpretation marker
    Pnina Shukrun-Nagar & Galia Hirsch

    • 21 November 2023

  • Modifying requests in a foreign language: A longitudinal study of Australian learners of Chinese
    Wei Li

    • 16 November 2023

  • Beyond the deferential view of the Chinese V pronoun nin 您
    Dániel Z. Kádár, Juliane House & Hao Liu

    • 2 November 2023

  • The role of multimodality and intertextuality in accentuating humor in Algerian Hirak’s posters
    Mohammed Nahar Al-Ali & Badra Hadj Djelloul

    • 23 October 2023

  • The use and perception of question tags in Trinidadian English
    Michael Westphal

    • 19 October 2023

  • The use of interlocking multi-unit turns in topic shifts
    Innhwa Park, Rachel S. Y. Chen, Jan Gorisch, Song Hee Park, Nadja Tadic & Eiko Yasui

    • 15 September 2023

  • Syntax and music for interaction: ‘Music-taking-predicate’ constructions in Hebrew musician-to-musician discourse
    Yuval Geva

    • 11 September 2023

  • The pragmatics of advice-giving in the media discourse: The interplay of speaker gender and hearer gender
    Chihsia Tang

    • 7 September 2023

  • ‘I think’ in Swedish L1 and L2 group interactions
    Eveliina Tolvanen

    • 17 August 2023

  • Creative metaphors and non-propositional effects: An experiment
    Valandis Bardzokas

    • 27 July 2023

  • On the manifestness of assumptions: Gaining insights into commitment and emotions
    Didier Maillat | PRAG 33:3 (2023) pp. 460–485

    • 25 July 2023

  • Translating politeness on public notices with a directive function in Thessaloniki: A cross-cultural perspective
    Christopher Lees
  • An investigation of the formation and pragmatic strategies of “xx-zi”: The case of Chinese internet buzzword juejuezi
    Junfang Mu, Lixin Zhang & Yuyang Chen

    • 20 July 2023

  • Notes on word order variation in Korean
    Chongwon Park & Jaehoon Yeon

    • 4 July 2023

  • Pragmatic markers in English and Italian film dialogue: Distribution and translation
    Liviana Galiano
  • Modal particles in ironic utterances: A common-ground approach to pretended surprise in verbal irony
    Holden Härtl & Jana-Maria Thimm | PRAG 34:3 (2024) pp. 347–366

    • 30 May 2023

  • Audible gestures: Single claps as a resource for managing interaction
    Eric Hauser | PRAG 34:3 (2024) pp. 367–392

    • 25 May 2023

  • Interactional and categorial analyses of identity construction in the talk of female-to-male (FtM) transgender individuals in Japan
    Chie Fukuda | PRAG 34:3 (2024) pp. 319–346
  • Polar answers: Accepting proposals in Greek telephone calls
    Theodossia-Soula Pavlidou & Angeliki Alvanoudi | PRAG 34:3 (2024) pp. 447–472

    • 23 May 2023

  • Perceiving the organisation through a coding scheme: The construction of managerial expertise in organisational training
    Riikka Nissi & Esa Lehtinen | PRAG 34:3 (2024) pp. 422–446

    • 16 May 2023

  • Dealing with missing participants in the opening phases of a videoconference
    Sabine Hoffmann & Giolo Fele | PRAG 34:3 (2024) pp. 393–421
  • Requests for concrete actions in interaction: How support workers manage client participation in mental health rehabilitation
    Camilla Lindholm, Jenny Paananen, Melisa Stevanovic, Elina Weiste & Taina Valkeapää | PRAG 34:2 (2024) pp. 190–214
  • ‘It seems my enemy is about having malaria’: The sociocultural context of verbal irony in Nigeria
    Felix Nwabeze Ogoanah | PRAG 34:2 (2024) pp. 215–237
  • Metarepresentational phenomena in Japanese and English: Implications for comparative linguistics
    Seiji Uchida | PRAG 33:3 (2023) pp. 436–459

    • 15 May 2023

  • Delving into suggestion speech acts in Chinese authoritative academic discourse: A cognitive pragmatic perspective
    Ke Li & Wenyu Liu | PRAG 34:2 (2024) pp. 161–189
  • Definite reference and discourse prominence in Longxi Qiang
    Wuxi Zheng | PRAG 34:2 (2024) pp. 293–318

    • 10 May 2023

  • The use of invitations to bid in classroom interaction
    Jae-Eun Park | PRAG 34:2 (2024) pp. 238–263

    • 9 May 2023

  • Obituary
    PRAG 33:2 (2023) pp. 155–156

    • 25 April 2023

  • Responses to English compliments on language ability: A cross‑generational study of Saudi Arabian university female students and lecturers
    Randa Saleh Maine Alharbi, Pat Strauss & Lynn Grant | PRAG 34:1 (2024) pp. 1–27
  • Didn’t she say to you, “Oh my God! In Pafos?”: Hypothetical quotations in everyday conversation
    Constantina Fotiou | PRAG 34:1 (2024) p. 81
  • Millennial identity work in BlablaCar online reviews
    María de la O Hernández-López | PRAG 34:1 (2024) pp. 134–159

    • 20 April 2023

  • Transcending the senpai ‘senior’/kōhai ‘junior’ boundary through cross-speaker repetition in Japanese
    Saeko Machi | PRAG 34:1 (2024) pp. 109–133

    • 5 April 2023

  • The cyclic nature of negation: From implicit to explicit. The case of Hebrew Bilti (‘not’)
    Ruti Bardenstein | PRAG 34:1 (2024) pp. 28–54

    • 27 March 2023

  • Language practices and policies of Singaporean-Japanese families in Singapore
    Francesco Cavallaro, Yan Kang Tan, Wenhan Xie & Bee Chin Ng | PRAG 34:1 (2024) pp. 55–80

    • 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 | PRAG 33:4 (2023) pp. 505–531

    • 7 March 2023

  • Concepts and context in relevance-theoretic pragmatics: New developments
    Agnieszka Piskorska & Manuel Padilla Cruz | PRAG 33:3 (2023) pp. 313–323

    • 24 February 2023

  • Non-literal uses of proper names in XYZ constructions: A relevance theory perspective
    Ewa Wałaszewska | PRAG 33:3 (2023) pp. 368–392
  • If I testify about others, my testimony is valid: A study of other-justified discourses in Chinese online medical crowdfunding
    Xin Zhao & Yansheng Mao | PRAG 33:4 (2023) pp. 641–662