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Pragmatics and Society

Volume 4, Issue 1 (2013)

2013. iii, 126 pp.

Publishing status: Available
Published online on 8 March 2013

© John Benjamins Publishing Company

https://doi.org/10.1075/ps.4.1

Table of Contents

A cross-cultural investigation of email communication in Peninsular Spanish and British English: The role of (in)formality and (in)directness Nuria Lorenzo-Dus and Patricia Bou-Franch	1–25
Doing listenership: One aspect of sociopragmatic competence at work Janet Holmes, Sharon Marsden and Meredith Marra	26–53
“I’m sorry, flower” Socializing apology, relationships, and empathy in Japan Matthew Burdelski	54–81
The granny: Public representations and creative performance Justine Coupland	82–104
The logic of failures of the cinematic imagination: Two case studies – and a logical puzzle and solution in just one Joseph S. Fulda	105–111
Review of Fried, Östman & Verschueren (): Variation and Change. Pragmatic Perspectives Reviewed by Sharon Millar	112–114
Review of Shohamy, Ben-Rafael & Barni (2010): Linguistic Landscape in the City Reviewed by Janus Mortensen	115–119
Review of Dolón & Todolí (2008): Analysing Identities in Discourse Reviewed by Zhou-min Yuan	120–126

Subjects and metadata

Linguistics

Sociolinguistics and Dialectology

Discourse studies