Pragmatics

Online-first articles

The following articles have been published online-first, and have not yet been published in an issue.

23 March 2026

Managing agency and urgency: Student injury incident reports in Chinese teacher-parent communication

Chaoqiang Wang and Lixia Chen | 22 pp.

Can denial strategies rebuild trust? Evidence from a hospital’s statement regarding cancer incidents in the laboratory

Kun Yang | 21 pp.

19 February 2026

Unsolicited advice in mediatised Chinese New Year celebrations: An interaction ritual approach

Wenrui Shi, Dániel Z. Kádár, Juliane House and Fengguang Liu | 28 pp.

27 January 2026

When personal names are mentioned in conversations: Presumed known, perhaps known and presumed unknown

Kevin A. Whitehead and Gene H. Lerner | 28 pp.

19 December 2025

Tailoring language to social hierarchies: A pragmatic study on the salutation in Zeng Guofan’s Family Letter s

Zepeng Wang, Haoming Li, Yansheng Mao and Li Zheng | 25 pp.

18 December 2025

Doing pragmatics with style: A corpus-pragmatic study of NOT-negation in the writings of Ta-Nehisi Coates

Yulia Hathaway | 23 pp.

16 December 2025

Unprompted self-disclosure in first encounter interactions: An analysis of getting-to-know-you conversations between new acquaintances

Xuehua Lai, Dana Chan, Afida Mohamad Ali and Geok Imm Lee | 32 pp.

15 December 2025

A pragmatic typology of WhatsApp sticker functions

Esther Linares Bernabéu and Francisco Yus | 35 pp.

31 October 2025

The pragmatics of emotion in socio-cultural contexts: A model for the analysis of David Bowie’s spontaneous memorial in London

Laura Hidalgo-Downing | 30 pp.

Translanguaging across Japanese and English: Linguistic normativities and indexical meanings

Junko Saito | 27 pp.

18 August 2025

A contrastive study of hedging in English and Chinese academic spoken discourse

Yuxiang Duan and Liesbeth Degand | 30 pp.

Metaphor-based zeugmas in web-based promotional tourism discourse: A formal-functional study

Nazi Iritspukhova | 32 pp.

Establishing emergent common ground: Chinese doctors’ use of metapragmatic expressions in oncological consultations

Chengtuan Li, Jing Han and Zhiwei Zhao | 24 pp.

Development of pragmatic awareness during study abroad: A focus on pragmatic markers

Annarita Magliacane and Ariadna Sánchez-Hernández | 26 pp.

8 August 2025

“Thank you for your participation” Expressing appreciation in the closing of online discussion forums

Debing Feng | 32 pp.

Effects of gender and generation on Chinese self-praise on social media

Yaping Guo, Wanrong Chen and Wei Ren | 26 pp.

Pragmatic functions of lê ‘what’ in Longxi Qiang: Beyond questioning

Wuxi Zheng | 33 pp.

1 August 2025

Listener and reader perceptions of um and uh

Tim Gadanidis | 30 pp.

Production and understanding of change‑of‑state tokens in English talk‑in‑interaction among L1 and L2 speakers

Min-Chang Sung and Sun-Young Oh | 27 pp.

31 July 2025

Infinitives, discourse viewpoint, and referential interpretation of the initiator in Spanish digital news discourse

Miguel A. Aijón Oliva | 25 pp.

3 June 2025

The impoliteness metadiscourse about a public apology: Evidence from Twitter/X

Ana Larissa Oliveira and Monique Vieira Miranda | 27 pp.

2 June 2025

A tale of tradition and modernization: The conceived self-identities by TCM doctors in the Digital Health Era

Yansheng Mao and Shuang Wei | 24 pp.

27 May 2025

Indexing traditional and modern professional values: T/V-pronouns in Flemish New Work Order job interviews

Melina De Dijn, Dorien Van De Mieroop, Eline Zenner and Dirk Speelman | 35 pp.

Grammar in the service of pragmatics: The tripartite address system in Contemporary Hasidic Yiddish

Sonya Yampolskaya | 27 pp.

The development of the Chinese multifunctional construction V+ qilai: From a complement-taking predicate to a discourse marker

Fangqiong Zhan | 28 pp.

26 May 2025

How public discourse functions to restore moral orders: Online impolite comments on corporate apologies

Yongping Ran and Jiabei Hu | 25 pp.

19 May 2025

“Tía, me dolió, ¿sabes?” Negotiating affiliation through the vocative tía in Spanish conversational storytelling

Virginia Acuña Ferreira | 27 pp.

Constructing self–other distinction in dialogic contexts: Beyond identity

Einat Kuzai | 26 pp.

6 May 2025

Flattery in historical China: A pragmatic perspective

Fengguang Liu, Li Zhang, Juliane House and Dániel Z. Kádár | 30 pp.

28 April 2025

The dialectics of interpersonal relating in a sports team

Nicholas Hugman | 27 pp.

25 April 2025

Identity in guanxi space: An indigenous pragmatic study from Chinese culture

Zhou-min Yuan and Xin Zhao | 21 pp.

24 April 2025

Pragmatics and cultural institutions: Typology of questions as strategies for online communication

María Isabel Hernández Toribio | 27 pp.

Using interactional metadiscourse for rapport management: A study of Chinese university enrolment posts on WeChat

Jialu Wang and Geqi Wu | 24 pp.

18 April 2025

The role of translation in language standardization: The case of Egypt

Hisham M. Ali | 25 pp.

24 February 2025

The acquisition of locative inversion at the syntax-pragmatics interface by Chinese learners of English

Shan Jiang and Zhang Huiping | 28 pp.

18 February 2025

Emotional language within influencer marketing on YouTube: A qualitative case study of twelve videos from Spanish YouTubers

Sanna Pelttari | 27 pp.

7 February 2025

“Why we are voting Biden-Harris” A multimodal cohesion analysis of the Democratic party’s 2020 Presidential Campaign ads

Ana Belén Cabrejas-Peñuelas | 37 pp.