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23 March 2026

  • Managing agency and urgency: Student injury incident reports in Chinese teacher-parent communication
    Chaoqiang Wang & Lixia Chen
  • Can denial strategies rebuild trust? Evidence from a hospital’s statement regarding cancer incidents in the laboratory
    Kun Yang

    • 19 February 2026

  • Unsolicited advice in mediatised Chinese New Year celebrations: An interaction ritual approach
    Wenrui Shi, Dániel Z. Kádár, Juliane House & Fengguang Liu

    • 27 January 2026

  • When personal names are mentioned in conversations: Presumed known, perhaps known and presumed unknown
    Kevin A. Whitehead & Gene H. Lerner

    • 19 December 2025

  • Tailoring language to social hierarchies: A pragmatic study on the salutation in Zeng Guofan’s Family Letters
    Zepeng Wang, Haoming Li, Yansheng Mao & Li Zheng

    • 18 December 2025

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

    • 16 December 2025

  • Unprompted self-disclosure in first encounter interactions: An analysis of getting-to-know-you conversations between new acquaintances
    Xuehua Lai, Mei Yuit Chan, Afida Mohamad Ali & Geok Imm Lee

    • 15 December 2025

  • A pragmatic typology of WhatsApp sticker functions
    Esther Linares Bernabéu & Francisco Yus

    • 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
  • Translanguaging across Japanese and English: Linguistic normativities and indexical meanings
    Junko Saito

    • 18 August 2025

  • A contrastive study of hedging in English and Chinese academic spoken discourse
    Yuxiang Duan & Liesbeth Degand
  • Metaphor-based zeugmas in web-based promotional tourism discourse: A formal-functional study
    Nazi Iritspukhova
  • Establishing emergent common ground: Chinese doctors’ use of metapragmatic expressions in oncological consultations
    Chengtuan Li, Jing Han & Zhiwei Zhao
  • Development of pragmatic awareness during study abroad: A focus on pragmatic markers
    Annarita Magliacane & Ariadna Sánchez-Hernández

    • 8 August 2025

  • “Thank you for your participation”: Expressing appreciation in the closing of online discussion forums
    Debing Feng
  • Effects of gender and generation on Chinese self-praise on social media
    Yaping Guo, Wanrong Chen & Wei Ren
  • Pragmatic functions of lê ‘what’ in Longxi Qiang: Beyond questioning
    Wuxi Zheng

    • 1 August 2025

  • Listener and reader perceptions of um and uh
    Tim Gadanidis
  • Production and understanding of change‑of‑state tokens in English talk‑in‑interaction among L1 and L2 speakers
    Min-Chang Sung & Sun-Young Oh

    • 31 July 2025

  • Infinitives, discourse viewpoint, and referential interpretation of the initiator in Spanish digital news discourse
    Miguel A. Aijón Oliva

    • 3 June 2025

  • The impoliteness metadiscourse about a public apology: Evidence from Twitter/X
    Ana Larissa Adorno Marciotto Oliveira & Monique Vieira Miranda

    • 2 June 2025

  • A tale of tradition and modernization: The conceived self-identities by TCM doctors in the Digital Health Era
    Yansheng Mao & Shuang Wei

    • 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 & Dirk Speelman
  • Grammar in the service of pragmatics: The tripartite address system in Contemporary Hasidic Yiddish
    Sonya Yampolskaya
  • The development of the Chinese multifunctional construction V+qilai : From a complement-taking predicate to a discourse marker
    Fangqiong Zhan

    • 26 May 2025

  • How public discourse functions to restore moral orders: Online impolite comments on corporate apologies
    Yongping Ran & Jiabei Hu

    • 19 May 2025

  • “Tía, me dolió, ¿sabes?”: Negotiating affiliation through the vocative tía in Spanish conversational storytelling
    Virginia Acuña Ferreira
  • Constructing self–other distinction in dialogic contexts: Beyond identity
    Einat Kuzai

    • 6 May 2025

  • Flattery in historical China: A pragmatic perspective
    Fengguang Liu, Li Zhang, Juliane House & Dániel Z. Kádár

    • 28 April 2025

  • The dialectics of interpersonal relating in a sports team
    Nicholas Hugman

    • 25 April 2025

  • Identity in guanxi space: An indigenous pragmatic study from Chinese culture
    Zhou-min Yuan & Xin Zhao

    • 24 April 2025

  • Pragmatics and cultural institutions: Typology of questions as strategies for online communication
    María Isabel Hernández Toribio
  • Using interactional metadiscourse for rapport management: A study of Chinese university enrolment posts on WeChat
    Jialu Wang & Geqi Wu

    • 18 April 2025

  • The role of translation in language standardization: The case of Egypt
    Hisham M. Ali

    • 24 February 2025

  • The acquisition of locative inversion at the syntax-pragmatics interface by Chinese learners of English
    Shan Jiang & Huiping Zhang

    • 18 February 2025

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

    • 13 February 2025

  • Dissenting emails in academia: The analysis of the micro- and macrostructure of Chinese university students’ emails to their lecturer in Spanish
    David Rodríguez Velasco & María Cecilia Ainciburu | PRAG 36:2 (2026) pp. 276–305

    • 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

    • 21 January 2025

  • Delineating how PCIs develop into GCIs from a cognition-pragmatics diachronic perspective: A case study of Chinese méimù
    Nina Liang, Yanfei Zhang & Yuan Zhang | PRAG 36:2 (2026) pp. 192–224

    • 20 January 2025

  • Dual function of (inter)subjectivity in the use of well as a discourse marker
    Ryo Takamura | PRAG 36:2 (2026) pp. 254–275

    • 17 January 2025

  • Semantic and pragmatic properties of post-truth discourse: A description of reverse news on social media
    Zhonggang Sang & Tongtong Shi | PRAG 36:2 (2026) pp. 225–253

    • 16 January 2025

  • Tracing relevance beyond codes and across modes: A multimodal pragmatic analysis of children’s rights advocacy campaign posters
    Turath Awad Al Tamimi & Thulfiqar H. Altahmazi | PRAG 36:2 (2026) pp. 165–191
  • Loan words can cause intercultural miscommunication: The case of Hebrew shahid
    Sandy Habib | PRAG 36:1 (2026) p. 89
  • “What are you talking about? That is not true” — Men’s and women’s disagreements in English and Italian interactions
    Vittorio Napoli | PRAG 36:1 (2026) pp. 109–136
  • Blended origo — Deixis in virtual reality
    Karsten Senkbeil | PRAG 36:1 (2026) pp. 137–163

    • 20 December 2024

  • Indexing a withdrawal from one’s previously-taken position: Using the multiple saying duì duì duì in Mandarin Chinese conversation
    Shuling Zhang & Mengying Qiu | PRAG 35:1 (2025) pp. 129–154

    • 16 December 2024

  • Claims of not-knowing as patients’ responses in psychodynamic psychotherapy
    Carolina Fenner | PRAG 36:1 (2026) pp. 37–62

    • 12 December 2024

  • Quotation headlines in the printed British quality press: (Re-)contextualisation meets entextualisation
    Anita Fetzer | PRAG 36:1 (2026) pp. 63–88

    • 14 November 2024

  • The sociopragmatic dimension of language use and evaluations of interactional behaviour: A cross-cultural investigation of Italian and British-English speakers’ perceptions
    Valentina Bartali | PRAG 36:1 (2026) pp. 1–36

    • 18 October 2024

  • Crazy literature: A case of mock self-impoliteness
    Shiyu Liu, Rong Chen & Fengguang Liu | PRAG 35:4 (2025) pp. 579–603

    • 15 October 2024

  • Eye closures in spoken Hebrew: Conversational functions and meaning semiosis
    Leon Shor | PRAG 35:4 (2025) pp. 604–627

    • 10 October 2024

  • Brazilian Portuguese wh-clefts in a multilevel analytic perspective
    Aroldo Andrade & Juliano Desiderato Antonio | PRAG 35:4 (2025) pp. 475–503
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