Latest articles

21 January 2025

  • Delineating how PCIs develop into GCIs from a cognition-pragmatics diachronic perspective: A case study of Chinese méimù
    Nina Liang, Yanfei Zhang & Yuan Zhang

    • 20 January 2025

  • Dual function of (inter)subjectivity in the use of well as a discourse marker
    Ryo Takamura

    • 17 January 2025

  • Semantic and pragmatic properties of post-truth discourse: A description of reverse news on social media
    Zhonggang Sang & Tongtong Shi

    • 16 January 2025

  • Tracing relevance beyond codes and across modes: A multimodal pragmatic analysis of children’s rights advocacy campaign posters
    Turath Awad Al Tamimi & Thulfiqar H. Altahmazi
  • Loan words can cause intercultural miscommunication: The case of Hebrew shahid
    Sandy Habib
  • “What are you talking about? That is not true” — Men’s and women’s disagreements in English and Italian interactions
    Vittorio Napoli
  • Blended origo — Deixis in virtual reality
    Karsten Senkbeil

    • 20 December 2024

  • Indexing a withdrawal from one’s previously-taken position: Using the multiple saying duì duì duì in Mandarin Chinese conversation
    Shuling Zhang & Mengying Qiu | PRAG 35:1 (2025) pp. 129–154

    • 16 December 2024

  • Claims of not-knowing as patients’ responses in psychodynamic psychotherapy
    Carolina Fenner

    • 12 December 2024

  • Quotation headlines in the printed British quality press: (Re-)contextualisation meets entextualisation
    Anita Fetzer

    • 14 November 2024

  • The sociopragmatic dimension of language use and evaluations of interactional behaviour: A cross-cultural investigation of Italian and British-English speakers’ perceptions
    Valentina Bartali

    • 18 October 2024

  • Crazy literature: A case of mock self-impoliteness
    Shiyu Liu, Rong Chen & Fengguang Liu

    • 15 October 2024

  • Eye closures in spoken Hebrew: Conversational functions and meaning semiosis
    Leon Shor

    • 10 October 2024

  • Brazilian Portuguese wh-clefts in a multilevel analytic perspective
    Aroldo Andrade & Juliano Desiderato Antonio

    • 3 September 2024

  • Towards a distinction between non-euphemistic and euphemism-based politically correct expressions: A relevance-theoretic perspective
    Tatiana Golubeva

    • 22 July 2024

  • China’s real estate agents’ persuasion realizations on WeChat Moments
    Jianyou He & Dengshan Xia

    • 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 | PRAG 35:1 (2025) pp. 1–24

    • 23 October 2023

  • The use and perception of question tags in Trinidadian English
    Michael Westphal | PRAG 35:1 (2025) pp. 101–128

    • 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 | PRAG 35:1 (2025) pp. 51–71

    • 15 September 2023

  • Syntax and music for interaction: ‘Music-taking-predicate’ constructions in Hebrew musician-to-musician discourse
    Yuval Geva | PRAG 35:1 (2025) pp. 25–50

    • 11 September 2023

  • The pragmatics of advice-giving in the media discourse: The interplay of speaker gender and hearer gender
    Chihsia Tang | PRAG 35:1 (2025) p. 72

    • 7 September 2023

  • ‘I think’ in Swedish L1 and L2 group interactions
    Eveliina Tolvanen | PRAG 34:4 (2024) pp. 615–641

    • 17 August 2023

  • Creative metaphors and non-propositional effects: An experiment
    Valandis Bardzokas | PRAG 34:4 (2024) pp. 473–500

    • 27 July 2023

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