Pragmatics and Society

Editor-in-Chief
ORCiD logo with linkDaria Dayter | Tampere University | daria.dayter at tuni.fi
Co-editors
ORCiD logo with linkHelena Halmari | Sam Houston State University
Special Issues Editor
ORCiD logo with linkHermine Penz | Karl Franzens University of Graz
Review Editor
ORCiD logo with linkJessica Aiston | Queen Mary University of London
Founding Editor
Jacob L. Mey | University of Southern Denmark

Pragmatics and Society puts the spotlight on societal aspects of language use, while incorporating many other facets of society-oriented pragmatic studies. It brings together a variety of approaches to the study of language in context, inspired by different research perspectives and drawing on various disciplines, for instance, sociology, psychology, developmental and cognitive science, anthropology, media research, and computer-related social studies. It is concerned with how language use and social normativity influence and shape each other, for instance, in education (the teaching and acquisition of first and second languages), in political discourse (with its manipulative language use), in the discourse of business and the workplace, and in all kinds of discriminatory uses of language (gender- and class-based or other). Finally, it pays special attention to the impact that our increased dependency on the computer is having on communication and interaction (especially as seen in the social media), as well as to the role of pragmatics in guiding social and racial emancipatory developments. The journal does not accept unsolicited reviews.

Pragmatics and Society publishes its articles Online First.

ISSN: 1878-9714 | E-ISSN: 1878‑9722
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https://doi.org/10.1075/ps
Latest articles

27 March 2026

  • Rong Lei. 2025. The Pragmatics of Managing Negative Emotions in a Chinese Context
    Reviewed by Ying JingZhou-min Yuan
  • 27 February 2026

  • Zhengpeng Luo. 2026. Genetic Literacy in Direct-to-Consumer Genetic Testing: A Discursive Approach to Public Engagement with Genetic Science
    Reviewed by Ling Shen
  • 13 February 2026

  • Ying Jin. 2025. The Discourse of Comfort in Chinese Online Medical Consultations
    Reviewed by Guoer LengXiaoli Wang
  • 22 January 2026

  • Michael HaughRosina Márquez Reiter. 2024. Morality in Discourse
    Reviewed by Jing HanYongping Ran
  • 5 January 2026

  • Hair or fist: Framing a movement through visual metaphtonymy
    Somayeh Hatamzadeh-EsfahaniReza Kazemian
  • 18 December 2025

  • Social deconstruction and power negotiation: A discursive study of “Africa and the world” on TED talk
    Tolulope Deborah IredeleAugustine Uzoma Nwagbara
  • 16 December 2025

  • Edward Schiappa. 2022. The Transgender Exigency: Defining Sex and Gender in the 21st Century
    Reviewed by Wei WangLei Zhu
  • 15 December 2025

  • Unveiling the sex differences and their diachronic changes of thanking in spoken British English: A local grammar based investigation
    Hang Su, Jun YeZiyi Xiong
  • Emma Moore. 2024. Socio-Syntax: Exploring the Social Life of Grammar
    Reviewed by Jiali CaoYuhong Liu
  • Pilar Garcés-Conejos Blitvich. 2024. Pragmatics, (Im)politeness, and Intergroup Communication: A Multilayered, Discursive Analysis of Cancel Culture
    Reviewed by Lin QiuKun Yang
  • 4 December 2025

  • Lucien BrownSoung-U Kim. 2025. Politeness Metapragmatics: Inductive Research, Multimodality and Critical Theory
    Reviewed by Wei WangXingbing Liu
  • 2 December 2025

  • Mihaela Popa-Wyatt. 2024. Harmful Speech and Contestation
    Reviewed by Ruby Rong WeiXiao Chen
  • 28 November 2025

  • Andreea S. Calude. 2024. The Linguistics of Social Media: An Introduction
    Reviewed by Qi DongQingsheng Jiang
  • 27 November 2025

  • Juliane HouseDániel Z. Kádár. 2024. Cross-Cultural Pragmatics and Foreign Language Learning
    Reviewed by Hossein DavariMasoud Dehghan
  • Juliane HouseDániel Z. Kádár. 2025. Language and Politics: A Cross-Cultural Pragmatic Perspective
    Reviewed by Li JiaotingSun Yongmei
  • Francisco Yus. 2023. Pragmatics of Internet Humour
    Reviewed by Jidong WuXinman Liu
  • 25 November 2025

  • Chiara Degano, Dora RennaFrancesca Santulli. 2024. Persuasion in Specialized Discourse
    Reviewed by Zhenghao RongJianfei Sun
  • Yanmei HanGuowen Shang. 2024. The Linguistic Landscape in China: Commodification, Image Construction, Contestations and Negotiations
    Reviewed by Yunhe ZhaoQiao Huang
  • Kevin A. Whitehead, Elizabeth StokoeGeoffrey Raymond. 2025. Categories in Social Interaction
    Reviewed by Zhiwei ZhaoChengtuan Li
  • 12 November 2025

  • “And the right wants to hang and relax”: Some features of impairment talk
    Emilie Munch NicolaisenGitte Rasmussen
  • 11 November 2025

  • Foreign relations law as an interdiscursive continuum: A comparative genre-pragmatic analysis
    Le ChengXiaobin Zhu
  • 9 October 2025

  • Assigning ‘sacred’ meaning to songs: A pragmatic perspective
    Antoine Willy Ndzotom Mbakop | PS 17:2 (2026) pp. 268–288
  • 22 September 2025

  • The use of transformative and extended responses in conducting sales work in product demonstration workshops
    Piia Mikkola, Jarkko NiemiRiikka Nissi
  • 19 September 2025

  • The evolution of protectionism metaphors in English-language media: A diachronic study across China, the UK, and the US (2001–2019)
    Dongman Cai
  • Address forms and self-reference practices in Kenya: A semio-cultural conceptualization perspective
    Mohammad Hossein KeshavarzMaureen Kajuju Murori Panagiotou | PS 17:2 (2026) pp. 245–267
  • Lorenza MondadaAnsi Peräkylä (eds.). 2023. New Perspectives on Goffman in Language and Interaction: Body, Participation and the Self
    Reviewed by Yang Yue
  • 15 September 2025

  • Noun forms of address among matatu touts in multilingual Kenya: Pragmatic functions beyond politeness theory
    Billian Khalayi Otundo | PS 17:2 (2026) pp. 223–244
  • 26 August 2025

  • Identity dynamics in text messaging: A case study of Chinese private tutors’ communication accommodation on WeChat
    Jiannan Song
  • 28 July 2025

  • The discursive construction of femininity in metacommentaries on a rape-joke in Nigeria
    Ibukun Filani | PS 17:2 (2026) pp. 196–222
  • 17 July 2025

  • The role of well as a response-delaying marker in side story insertions
    Ryo Takamura
  • 23 June 2025

  • A multimodal analysis of a Japanese TV commercial: A case study of ethnopoetic texts and beyond
    Kuniyoshi Kataoka | PS 16:4 (2025) pp. 471–493
  • Societal pragmatics: Illocutionary and perlocutionary effects reinforced/mitigated by the use of the grammaticalized honorific system in Japanese
    Etsuko Oishi | PS 16:4 (2025) pp. 518–547
  • 16 June 2025

  • The pragmatics of communication in traditional ritual performance (Japanese kagura): Pragmemic triggers as performative acts
    William O. Beeman | PS 16:4 (2025) pp. 494–517
  • Martin Gill, Aino MalmivirtaBrita Wårvik (eds.). 2024. Structures in Discourse: Interaction, adaptability, and pragmatic functions
    Reviewed by Ylva Biri | PS 17:2 (2026) pp. 289–293
  • 27 May 2025

  • Giving advice in HIV counselling in Malaysia
    Nur’ain Balqis Haladin, Zuraidah Mohd DonNoor Aireen Ibrahim | PS 16:4 (2025) pp. 449–470
  • 30 April 2025

  • Unspoken evaluation of impoliteness: The Javanese linguistic interaction example
    Norwanto Norwanto
  • 29 April 2025

  • Andreas H. Jucker, Iris HübscherLucien Brown (eds.). 2023. Multimodal Im/politeness. Signed, spoken, written
    Reviewed by Luisa Warnat | PS 17:1 (2026) pp. 148–152
  • 25 April 2025

  • Stances and ideologies in Nigerian pro-gay tweets: A linguistic perspective
    Olubunmi Funmi Oyebanji | PS 17:2 (2026) pp. 175–195
  • Chaoqun Xie (ed.). 2022. The Pragmatics of Internet Memes
    Reviewed by Francisco Yus | PS 16:6 (2025) pp. 941–945
  • 14 April 2025

  • Conceptual metaphors in Jordanian newspaper socio-political discourse during the Arab Spring
    Jihad M. HamdanRonza Nayef Abu Rumman | PS 17:1 (2026) pp. 66–91
  • Activity contamination in a problematic call made to the Korean emergency center
    Yujong Park | PS 17:1 (2026) p. 92
  • Withholding advice for rapport management in online medical counselling interactions: A comparative perspective
    Na Yang | PS 17:1 (2026) pp. 123–147
  • 24 March 2025

  • Conflict, gender, and amount of talk: Gender differences in Spanish role play data
    Gloria Uclés-Ramada, Sven KachelPekka Posio | PS 17:1 (2026) pp. 45–65
  • 14 March 2025

  • Othman Khalid 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
    Reviewed by Xiaoqin WuXueyu Yue | PS 16:5 (2025) pp. 772–776
  • 6 March 2025

  • Reciprocity and epistemicity on screen-based interactions: The case of MOOCs
    Ana Larissa Adorno Marciotto Oliveira | PS 17:1 (2026) pp. 24–44
  • 3 March 2025

  • Both responsiveness and standardization: Constructing institutional realities in intermediate labor markets
    Sanni Tiitinen, Kirsi JuhilaTea Lempiälä | PS 17:1 (2026) pp. 1–23
  • 13 February 2025

  • Doing newsworthiness in execution news and death penalty ideology
    Orawee Bunnag, Krisda ChaemsaithongKeun-Hye Shin | PS 16:6 (2025) pp. 916–940
  • Us and them: Discourses on October 20, 2020 #endsars shooting at the Lekki toll gate in Nigerian newspapers
    Ayo OsisanwoRuth Karachi Benson Oji | PS 17:2 (2026) pp. 153–174
  • 6 February 2025

  • Citizens’ polarised discourses on climate change and mobility: The conflict with Barcelona mayor Ada Colau
    Esperanza Morales-LópezAlan Floyd | PS 16:6 (2025) pp. 873–891
  • Comparing Chinese and British entrepreneurial pitches in reality TV shows: A corpus-based appraisal analysis
    Huiyu Zhang, Honglv Liu, Wujing DengYuanhong Wei | PS 16:6 (2025) pp. 892–915
  • 3 February 2025

  • ‘What happened to the un-omitted subjects?’: Variation in referential choices for first and second person subjects in spoken Korean
    Narah Lee | PS 16:6 (2025) pp. 850–872
  • Commenting behavior as a mirror of parasocial relationships and emotional attachment on YouTube: A qualitative study of comments on product-promoting videos in Spanish
    Sanna Pelttari | PS 16:6 (2025) pp. 828–849
  • Pilar Garcés-Conejos Blitvich. 2024. Pragmatics, (Im)politeness, and Intergroup Communication: A Multilayered, Discursive Analysis of Cancel Culture
    Reviewed by Youzhi Sun | PS 16:4 (2025) pp. 618–621
  • 23 January 2025

  • The metapragmatic act of debating in the media
    Ronald R. Jacobsen | PS 16:6 (2025) pp. 806–827
  • 16 January 2025

  • Simple language, sophisticated actions: Sequence-initiating actions by novice English users in an educational context
    Eric HauserZachary Nanbu | PS 16:6 (2025) pp. 777–805
  • 19 December 2024

  • Deictic shifts and re-contextualization in translation: A case study of English and Persian parallel texts
    Masoumeh DiyanatiMohammad Amouzadeh | PS 16:5 (2025) pp. 748–771
  • 28 November 2024

  • The pragmeme of accommodation in Christian condolence messages in Nigeria
    Temitope Michael AjayiTemidayo Akinrinlola | PS 16:5 (2025) pp. 726–747
  • 21 November 2024

  • “I am not populist”: Mechanisms for the re-negotiation of category membership on Twitter
    Laura Filardo-Llamas, Barbara De Cock, Philippe HambyeNadezda Shchinova | PS 16:5 (2025) pp. 653–675
  • When the discourse of strategy meets the discourse of spirituality: A study of the recontextualization of strategy discourse in a Church organization
    Pekka PälliEsa Lehtinen | PS 16:5 (2025) pp. 701–725
  • Recontextualizing knowledge in academic video publications: A discourse analysis of multimodal science dissemination
    María Ángeles Velilla Sánchez | PS 16:5 (2025) pp. 676–700
  • Annelie ÄdelJan-Ola Östman (eds). 2023. Risk Discourse and Responsibility
    Reviewed by Anaïs Augé | PS 16:3 (2025) pp. 442–447
  • Sandrine SorlinTuija Virtanen (Eds.). 2024. The Pragmatics of Hypocrisy
    Reviewed by Roni Danziger | PS 16:2 (2025) pp. 305–309
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    ORCiD logo with linkDaria Dayter | Tampere University | daria.dayter at tuni.fi
    Co-editors
    ORCiD logo with linkHelena Halmari | Sam Houston State University
    Special Issues Editor
    ORCiD logo with linkHermine Penz | Karl Franzens University of Graz
    Review Editor
    ORCiD logo with linkJessica Aiston | Queen Mary University of London
    Founding Editor
    Jacob L. Mey | University of Southern Denmark
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    ORCiD logo with linkWilliam O. Beeman | University of Minnesota
    ORCiD logo with linkMary Bucholtz | University of California, Santa Barbara
    ORCiD logo with linkLe Cheng | Zhejiang University
    ORCiD logo with linkFrançois Cooren | Université de Montréal
    ORCiD logo with linkLouise Cummings | Hong Kong Polytechnic University
    ORCiD logo with linkRaymond W. Gibbs, Jr. | Independent Cognitive Scientist
    William F. Hanks | University of California, Berkeley
    ORCiD logo with linkMichael Haugh | University of Queensland
    Sachiko Ide | Japan's Women's University
    Elizabeth Keating | University of Texas at Austin
    ORCiD logo with linkHans J. Ladegaard | Hong Kong Polytechnic University
    ORCiD logo with linkTheo van Leeuwen | University of Southern Denmark
    ORCiD logo with link Li Wei | University College London
    ORCiD logo with linkMeredith Marra | Victoria University of Wellington
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    ORCiD logo with linkTheodossia-Soula Pavlidou | Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
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