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In:Handbook of Pragmatics: 28th Annual Installment
Edited by Jana Declercq, Frank Brisard, Sigurd D’hondt and Mieke Vandenbroucke
[Handbook of Pragmatics 28] 2025
► pp. 47–61

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Podcasting

 | Ghent University
Published online: 18 September 2025
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Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.Literature review
  • 3.Key concepts
    • 3.1Interactivity
    • 3.2Personal and process transparency
    • 3.3Storytelling
  • 4.Podcasts as a locus for linguistic pragmatic analysis
    • 4.1De-dramatizing the podcast
    • 4.2Ventriloquism in podcasts
    • 4.3Multimodal analysis
  • 5.Perspectives for future research
  • References
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