Pragmatics and Society

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Language change among Kalhuri Kurdish speakers in Iran	8
Simple language, sophisticated actions	7
A marathon to nowhere	7
The role of object distance and gender in Persian compliment responses	6
Review of Xie (2022): The Pragmatics of Internet Memes	6
Unveiling the sex differences and their diachronic changes of thanking in spoken British English	6
Gendered subtle bias in Danish TV election debates	6
Review of Scott (2022): Pragmatics Online	6
Solidarity and support in Belgian residential linguistic landscapes during the Covid-19 outbreak	5
Review of Whitehead, Stokoe & Raymond (2025): Categories in Social Interaction	4
Metaphor analysis of the COVID-19 public health emergency on Chinese national news media	4
Review of Xie, Yus & Haberland (2021): Approaches to Internet Pragmatics: Theory and practice	4
Review of Walton, Macagno & Sartor (2019): Statutory Interpretation. Pragmatics and Argumentation	4
Representations of ‘leftover women’ in the Chinese English-medium newspapers	4
The role of well as a response-delaying marker in side story insertions	4
Discursive positioning of doctors and e‑patients in online medical consultations in China	4
The role of prior and actual situational context in conversational routines produced by Chinese learners of English	4
Disagreement strategies and institutional face attack in Chinese mainstream media editorial comments on Weibo	4
A contrastive study of Chinese and American online complaints	4
Conflict, gender, and amount of talk	4
Dialogic language and meta-language in a conflictual discourse	4
Societal pragmatics	3
Attacks and remedies in online public opinion reversal events	3
The metapragmatic act of debating in the media	3

The World of Daily Life	3
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Under the shadow of swords: The Rhetoric of Jihad	3
Determiners of social inclusion and exclusion in the dementia context	3
Trust me, trust my words	3
On the constitutional relevance of non‑discursive enlanguaged doings to sociomaterial practices	3
Kwame Nkrumah’s construction of ‘the African people’ via the Unite or Perish myth	3
‘What happened to the un-omitted subjects?’	3
On an even playing field of haiku making	3
Novel veiling and concealing euphemisms in political discourse	3
“Not everything is on the hostess”	3
Parents’ indirect utterances in an Indonesian family	3
Comparing compliments in Face-to-Face vs. online interactions among Iranian speakers of Persian	3
Review of Degano, Renna & Santulli (2024): Persuasion in Specialized Discourse	2
Face attributes in interviews with Iranian politicians	2
‘Proto-conversation’ as a practice in late-stage dementia care	2
Self-help and masculinity	2
Situated co-operative creativity	2
The discursive construction of femininity in metacommentaries on a rape-joke in Nigeria	2
Review of Haugh & Reiter (2024): Morality in Discourse	2
When TCM debate meets Covid-19 discourse	2
From our sisters/to our sisters	2
Unspoken evaluation of impoliteness	2
“I Am Proud to Be a Traitor”	2
Initiating reason-for-the-call action in mundane mobile phone conversation	2
A study on the intertextuality of Russian media	2
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The performance and relational role of toast intervention in Chinese dining contexts	2
Review of Schneider & Ifantidou (2020): Developmental and Clinical Pragmatics	2
Affect in the pragmeme of delivering a health directive	2
Transdisciplinary approaches to the discourse of Islamist extremism	2
Review of Calude (2024): The Linguistics of Social Media: An Introduction	2
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Hair or fist	2
The interpersonal semantics of rhetoric	2
Repetition and paraphrase in contexts of concordant and discordant orientations	2
I am a doctor in your shoes	2
Examining the use of reflexive metadiscourse in the construction of affiliative communication in group email requests	2
Attitudes to language and bilingualism in residential care for older persons in Ireland	1
Regrounding work in elite discourse	1
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Both responsiveness and standardization	1
Covid-19 WhatsApp sticker memes as public signs in Oman	1
Talking about the deceased in the Jish linguaculture	1
“Can eat less? Big elder sister”	1
You have no right!	1
Clean room, uncomfortable bed	1
Interveners’ performance of “identity work” in the context of Chinese bystander intervention	1
Review of Blitvich (2024): Pragmatics, (Im)politeness, and Intergroup Communication: A Multilayered, Discursive Analysis of Cancel Culture	1

Review of Wharton & de Saussure (2023): Pragmatics and Emotion	1
Introduction	1
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Metaphorical framing in news	1
Review of Economidou-Kogetsidis, Savić & Halenko (2021): Email Pragmatics and Second Language Learners	1
Common ground management via evidential markers in Turkish	1
Review of Mondada & Peräkylä (2023): New Perspectives on Goffman in Language and Interaction: Body, Participation and the Self	1
Doing things with discourse in the mediated political arena	1
Polemic polyphony	1
Comparing Chinese and British entrepreneurial pitches in reality TV shows	1
“Let’s Just Forget It!”	1
Representation of women in English and Persian proverbs	1
Would you like a bag for that?	1
“I am not populist”	1
Idioms, proverbs and body part expressions onYiedie“wellbeing” in Akan	1
Noun forms of address among matatu touts in multilingual Kenya	1
Review of Verschueren (2021): Complicity in Discourse and Practice	1
Review of Sorlin & Virtanen (2024): The Pragmatics of Hypocrisy	1
Saying “sorry” in online language	1
Conventions of author self-reference in Chinese academic writing	1
Interactional multimodal metadiscourse in public health posters during the COVID-19 pandemic	1
Failed execution in inferential pragmatics	1
Blame-avoiding strategies for a digital scandal	1
A corpus-based study of the shifts of evidentiality in the institutional interpreting of Chinese political discourse	1
Finnish and French public signs from commercial premises during the Covid-19 pandemic	1
Chinese patients’ unsolicited presentation of primary concerns	1
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The language of threat	0
From image to function	0
Citizens’ polarised discourses on climate change and mobility	0
Signs of belonging	0
Review of Schiappa (2022): The Transgender Exigency: Defining Sex and Gender in the 21st Century	0
Us and them	0
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Dialogicity in Political Discourse	0
Approaches to the discourse of terror	0
The use of transformative and extended responses in conducting sales work in product demonstration workshops	0
Resemblance in comments/posts interaction	0
Review of Masia (2021): The Manipulative Disguise of Truth: Tricks and threats of implicit communication	0
Getting involved or acting in defence	0
Deconstructing imagined identities and imagined communities through humor	0
Correcting the scientific record	0
Review of Chen (2021): Exploring identity work in Chinese communication	0
Pragmatics of Active Social Inclusion	0
Review of Luo (2026): Genetic Literacy in Direct-to-Consumer Genetic Testing: A Discursive Approach to Public Engagement with Genetic Science	0
Review of Han & Shang (2024): The Linguistic Landscape in China: Commodification, Image Construction, Contestations and Negotiations	0
Dealing with the dual demands of expertise and democracy	0
Culture and identity in critical remarks	0
Virtual dialogues in monologic political discourse	0
Parentheses used as pragmatic strategies in Chinese online socialization	0
Code accommodation as a measure of inclusion for bilingual people living with dementia of the Alzheimer’s type	0
Doing newsworthiness in execution news and death penalty ideology	0
Degrees of negative judgement	0
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Verbal play in dementia care	0
“A tour guide losing her cool”	0
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“That was a long time ago”	0
Foreign relations law as an interdiscursive continuum	0
Politeness in hotel service encounter interactions in Spain	0
Address forms and self-reference practices in Kenya	0
“Why does he appear so ordinary, but he can be so confident”	0
“Money can buy health”	0
The pragmatics of communication in traditional ritual performance (Japanese kagura)	0
Commenting behavior as a mirror of parasocial relationships and emotional attachment on YouTube	0
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Social deconstruction and power negotiation	0
Review of House & Kádár (2021): Cross-cultural pragmatics	0
Negotiating academic conflict in discussion sections of doctoral dissertations	0
Activity contamination in a problematic call made to the Korean emergency center	0
Identity dynamics in text messaging	0
A semi-supervised algorithm for detecting extremism propaganda diffusion on social media	0
Review of Jucker, Hübscher & Brown (2023): Multimodal Im/politeness. Signed, spoken, written	0
The pragmeme of accommodation in Christian condolence messages in Nigeria	0
Contradicting potential climate misinformation during televised debates	0
A study of linguistic manipulations of activating, seeking and creating common ground in intercultural business communication	0
Review of Robles & Weatherall (2021): How Emotions Are Made in Talk	0
Review of Moore (2024): Socio-Syntax: Exploring the Social Life of Grammar	0
“They fabricated lies against us and described us in the harshest of ways”	0
Pragmatics in African Contexts	0

Review of Al-Shboul (2023): The Politics of Climate Change Metaphors in the U.S. Discourse: Conceptual Metaphor Theory and Analysis from an Ecolinguistics and Critical Discourse Analysis Perspective	0
Actions of known-answer questions in guided tours	0
Recontextualizing knowledge in academic video publications	0
Exploring lexical associations in English as a Lingua Franca interactions	0
Negotiating the value of rule of law through attitudinal positioning	0
Where there is panic, the media are close by	0
Reduction in and out of context	0
Politely warning?	0
‘Like to comment on that?’	0
Casting nets, keeping fish	0
The interpersonal functions of public signs during the Covid-19 pandemic	0
Rhetorical strategies for the construction of a corporate identity	0
Review of Gill, Malmivirta & Wårvik (2024): Structures in Discourse: Interaction, adaptability, and pragmatic functions	0
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Conspiracy theories and passion	0
Review of McCready (2019): The Semantics and Pragmatics of Honorification: Register and Social Meaning	0
Singling out	0
Review of House & Kádár (2025): Language and Politics: A Cross-Cultural Pragmatic Perspective	0
Review of Yus (2025): Emoji Pragmatics	0
Conceptual metaphors in Jordanian newspaper socio-political discourse during the Arab Spring	0
Review of Betz, Deppermann, Mondada & Sorjonen (2021): OKAY across Languages: Toward a Comparative Approach to its Use in Talk-in-interaction	0
“And the right wants to hang and relax”	0
Review of Placencia & Eslami (2020): Complimenting Behavior and (Self)Praise across Social Media. New Contexts and New Insights	0
Criticizing for the public interest and aligning with others	0
Giving advice in HIV counselling in Malaysia	0
Review of Yus (2023): Pragmatics of Internet Humour	0
An epistemic interpretation of responses to advice resistance on Chinese phone-ins of family problem counseling	0
Review of Yus (2022): Smartphone Communication. Interactions in the App Ecosystem	0
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Speaking of workplaces in the time of Covid-19	0
Review of Brown & Kim (2025): Politeness Metapragmatics: Inductive Research, Multimodality and Critical Theory	0
Multivaried acceptance of post-editing in China	0
Review of Juzelėnienė, Šarkauskienė & Baranauskienė (2024): Approaches to Multimodality: Rhetoric and Stylistics in Public Discourse	0
Conversation practices that foster or hinder inclusivity during interactions involving persons with dementia	0
“I hope this is your last sorrow”	0
Review of Haugh, Kádár & Terkourafi (2021): The Cambridge Handbook of Sociopragmatics	0
“I never said that”	0
“Trust X, because Y”	0
The Discourse of Terrorism	0
Review of Jin (2025): The Discourse of Comfort in Chinese Online Medical Consultations	0
Fear appeals in Chinese public signs of COVID-19 prevention in local communities	0
More than writing on the wall	0
Taking actions to enhance inclusivity of persons living with dementia	0
Review of Popa-Wyatt (2024): Harmful Speech and Contestation	0
Review of House & Kádár (2024): Cross-Cultural Pragmatics and Foreign Language Learning	0
Mitigating requesting acts by deaf Jordanian adults	0
Meschonnic, Wittgenstein and translation as form of life	0
Deontic authority-based resolution of deontic right-based resistance in online medical consultation	0
Learning from initial reviews of multilingual graphics illustrating dementia caregiving	0
Patients resist, doctors manage	0
Stances and ideologies in Nigerian pro-gay tweets	0
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The role of assessments in providing evasive answers in news interviews	0
Reciprocity and epistemicity on screen-based interactions	0
The evolution of protectionism metaphors in English-language media	0
When the discourse of strategy meets the discourse of spirituality	0
From evaluative authorities to involved narrators	0
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On the nature of pragmatic constituents	0
A politeness-theoretic approach to mitigated disagreements in online radio medical consultations	0
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Review of Yus (2023): Pragmatics of Internet Humour	0
Identity gatekeeping in New Work Order organizations	0
Urban environments favorable to radical narratives	0
Defining openness in teachers’ ‘open’ questions	0
Review of Cap (2022): The Discourse of Conflict and Crisis: Poland’s Political Rhetoric in the European Perspective	0
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Review of Ädel & Östman (2023): Risk Discourse and Responsibility	0
Evidential meanings in native and learner Japanese and English	0
Withholding advice for rapport management in online medical counselling interactions	0
Review of Garcés-Conejos Blitvich (2024): Pragmatics, (Im)politeness, and Intergroup Communication: A Multilayered, Discursive Analysis of Cancel Culture	0
Scalar implicature	0
Variation and society	0
Making up or taunting?	0
“Jerry was a terrific host!” “You were a brilliant guest!”	0
Political language gaffes and the importance of Hearer’s meaning	0
Obituary	0
Review of Lei (2025): The Pragmatics of Managing Negative Emotions in a Chinese Context	0
A multimodal analysis of a Japanese TV commercial	0
Assigning ‘sacred’ meaning to songs	0
A socio-pragmatic analysis of the Turkish discourse markers of ‘şey’, ‘yani’, and ‘işte’ based on educational level of speakers	0
Deictic shifts and re-contextualization in translation	0
Disseminating risk communication	0
Review of Panther (2022): Introduction to Cognitive Pragmatics	0
Historical imprints on Chinese ideological given names	0
“Our group was by far the coolest”	0
Semiotic manipulation strategies employed in Iranian printed advertisements	0
Pragmatic functions of humor in Berlin’s directive Covid-19 Signs	0
Dialogic meaning-making in political settings	0
When invoked voices blame real politicians	0
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Review of Esposito & KhosraviNik (2024): Discourse in the Digital Age: Social Media, Power and Society	0
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The humorous effect of routine formulas in Spanish and English televised monologues	0
One issue, two genres	0