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Pragmatics and Society

Volume 7, Issue 3 (2016)

2016. v, 168 pp.

Publishing status: Available
Published online on 12 September 2016

© John Benjamins Publishing Company

https://doi.org/10.1075/ps.7.3

Table of Contents

Articles
Complimenting behaviour on Facebook: Responding to compliments in American English María Elena Placencia, Amanda Lower and Hebe Powell	339–365
Argument in professional-client encounters: Building cases through second-hand assessments Janne Solberg	366–390
Reformulating the question in US Presidential debates: A device for adjusting the question and the subsequent answer to one's audience Ronald R. Jacobsen	391–412
Language choice in multilingual religious settings: The historical factor Antoine Willy Ndzotom Mbakop	413–435
Discursive pragmatics of T-shirt inscriptions: Constructing the self, context and social aspirations Innocent Chiluwa and Esther Ajiboye	436–462
The role of metapragmatic expressions as pragmatic manipulation in a TV panel discussion program Ping Liu and Yongping Ran	463–481
Enacting and negotiating power relations through teasing in distributed leadership constellations Seongsook Choi and Stephanie Schnurr	482–502
Book Review
Review of Chiluwa (2011): Labeling and Ideology in the Press: A Corpus-based Critical Discourse Study of the Niger Delta Crisis Reviewed by Mark Nartey	503–506

Subjects and metadata

Main BIC Subject

CFG: Semantics, Pragmatics, Discourse Analysis

Main BISAC Subject

LAN009000: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General