Pragmatics and Society

Online-first articles

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

27 March 2026

Review of Lei (2025): The Pragmatics of Managing Negative Emotions in a Chinese Context

Ying Jing and Zhou-min Yuan | 6 pp.

27 February 2026

Review of Luo (2026): Genetic Literacy in Direct-to-Consumer Genetic Testing: A Discursive Approach to Public Engagement with Genetic Science

Ling Shen | 6 pp.

13 February 2026

Review of Jin (2025): The Discourse of Comfort in Chinese Online Medical Consultations

Guoer Leng and Xiaoli Wang | 6 pp.

22 January 2026

Review of Haugh & Reiter (2024): Morality in Discourse

Jing Han and Yongping Ran | 5 pp.

5 January 2026

Hair or fist: Framing a movement through visual metaphtonymy

Somayeh Hatamzadeh-Esfahani and Reza Kazemian | 26 pp.

18 December 2025

Social deconstruction and power negotiation: A discursive study of “Africa and the world” on TED talk

Tolulope Deborah Iredele and Augustine Uzoma Nwagbara | 22 pp.

16 December 2025

Review of Schiappa (2022): The Transgender Exigency: Defining Sex and Gender in the 21st Century

Wei Wang and Lei Zhu | 4 pp.

15 December 2025

Review of Moore (2024): Socio-Syntax: Exploring the Social Life of Grammar

Jiali Cao and Yuhong Liu | 6 pp.

Unveiling the sex differences and their diachronic changes of thanking in spoken British English: A local grammar based investigation

Susan Hunston, Yun Ye and Ziyi Xiong | 26 pp.

Review of Blitvich (2024): Pragmatics, (Im)politeness, and Intergroup Communication: A Multilayered, Discursive Analysis of Cancel Culture

Lin Qiu and Kun Yang | 4 pp.

4 December 2025

Review of Brown & Kim (2025): Politeness Metapragmatics: Inductive Research, Multimodality and Critical Theory

Wei Wang and Xingbing Liu | 6 pp.

2 December 2025

Review of Popa-Wyatt (2024): Harmful Speech and Contestation

Ruby Rong Wei and Xiao Chen | 6 pp.

28 November 2025

Review of Calude (2024): The Linguistics of Social Media: An Introduction

Qi Dong and Qingsheng Jiang | 7 pp.

27 November 2025

Review of House & Kádár (2024): Cross-Cultural Pragmatics and Foreign Language Learning

Hossein Davari and Masoud Dehghan | 8 pp.

Review of House & Kádár (2025): Language and Politics: A Cross-Cultural Pragmatic Perspective

Li Jiaoting and Sun Yongmei | 6 pp.

Review of Yus (2023): Pragmatics of Internet Humour

Jidong Wu and Xinman Liu | 6 pp.

25 November 2025

Review of Degano, Renna & Santulli (2024): Persuasion in Specialized Discourse

Zhenghao Rong and Jianfei Sun | 6 pp.

Review of Han & Shang (2024): The Linguistic Landscape in China: Commodification, Image Construction, Contestations and Negotiations

Yunhe Zhao and Qiao Huang | 6 pp.

Review of Whitehead, Stokoe & Raymond (2025): Categories in Social Interaction

Zhiwei Zhao and Chengtuan Li | 6 pp.

12 November 2025

“And the right wants to hang and relax” Some features of impairment talk

Emilie Munch Nicolaisen and Gitte Rasmussen | 24 pp.

11 November 2025

Foreign relations law as an interdiscursive continuum: A comparative genre-pragmatic analysis

Le Cheng and Xiaobin Zhu | 22 pp.

22 September 2025

The use of transformative and extended responses in conducting sales work in product demonstration workshops

Piia Mikkola, Jarkko Niemi and Riikka Nissi | 24 pp.

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 | 26 pp.

Review of Mondada & Peräkylä (2023): New Perspectives on Goffman in Language and Interaction: Body, Participation and the Self

Yang Yue | 5 pp.

26 August 2025

Identity dynamics in text messaging: A case study of Chinese private tutors’ communication accommodation on WeChat

Jiannan Song | 21 pp.

17 July 2025

The role of well as a response-delaying marker in side story insertions

Ryo Takamura | 20 pp.

30 April 2025

Unspoken evaluation of impoliteness: The Javanese linguistic interaction example

Norwanto Norwanto | 20 pp.