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Pragmatics | Quarterly Publication of the International Pragmatics Association (IPrA)

Pragmatics is the peer-reviewed quarterly journal of the International Pragmatics Association (IPrA) , which was established in 1986 to represent the field of linguistic pragmatics, broadly conceived as the interdisciplinary (cognitive, social, cultural) science of language use. Its goal is to reflect the diversity of topics, applications, methods and approaches available within this wide field, and thus to contribute to IPrA’s foundational aim of searching for coherence across different perspectives and of bridging any gaps between the field’s practitioners, whether their background is linguistic, anthropological, sociological, psychological, computational, etc.

Pragmatics is made available online as free content after a 12-month embargo period. Members of the International Pragmatics Association (IPrA) always have access to the online version by logging in with their user name and password at the IPrA website, www.pragmatics.international . When applying for or renewing their membership, IPrA members may also choose to pay the additional fee required to receive paper copies.

Pragmatics publishes its articles Online First.

18 October 2024

• Crazy literature : A case of mock self-impoliteness Shiyu Liu , Rong Chen &  Fengguang Liu

15 October 2024

• Eye closures in spoken Hebrew : Conversational functions and meaning semiosis Leon Shor

10 October 2024

• Brazilian Portuguese wh -clefts in a multilevel analytic perspective Aroldo Andrade &  Juliano Desiderato Antonio

3 September 2024

• Towards a distinction between non-euphemistic and euphemism-based politically correct expressions : A relevance-theoretic perspective Tatiana Golubeva

22 July 2024

• China’s real estate agents’ persuasion realizations on WeChat Moments Jianyou He &  Dengshan Xia

10 June 2024

• “It’s nothing serious, take it easy” : Chinese doctors’ emotion-regulating discourses on the online medical consultation websites Qingsheng Jiang , Yansheng Mao &  Yihang Wang

14 May 2024

• A relevance-theoretic analysis of Colloquial Singapore English hor Junwen Lee
• Metaphors to describe sanctions against Iran in American and Iranian newspapers Rasoul Mohammad Hosseinpur &  Mahdi Mansouri
• Prosodic features of polite speech : Evidence from Korean interactional data Lucien Brown , Grace Eunhae Oh &  Kaori Idemaru

30 April 2024

• Why not focus on combating the virus? On the active and passive egocentrism in communications Baiyao Zuo

18 April 2024

• The use of the non-lexical sound öö in Hungarian same-turn self-repair Zsuzsanna Németh

14 March 2024

• ‘Where have you been hiding this voice?’ : Judges’ compliments on the TV talent show Arab Idol Fathi Migdadi , Muhammad A. Badarneh &  Areej Qudaisat

1 March 2024

• Embodied interaction with face masks and social distancing : Brazilian health care workers’ daily routines in pandemic times Ulrike Schröder &  Sineide Gonçalves

29 January 2024

• Multiple repair solutions in response to open class repair initiators (OCRIs) in next turn : The case of hospitality and tourism service encounters in English as a lingua franca (ELF) Aonrumpa Thongphut &  Jagdish Kaur

19 January 2024

• How face is perceived in Chinese and Japanese : A contrastive study Qi Xiao &  Ling Zhou | PRAG 34:2 (2024) pp. 264–292

9 January 2024

• Move combinations in the conclusion section of applied linguistics research articles Tomoyuki Kawase

28 November 2023

• What kind of laughter? The triple function of “Hhh” as a contempt, intention, and interpretation marker Pnina Shukrun-Nagar &  Galia Hirsch

21 November 2023

• Modifying requests in a foreign language : A longitudinal study of Australian learners of Chinese Wei Li

16 November 2023

• Beyond the deferential view of the Chinese V pronoun nin 您 Dániel Z. Kádár , Juliane House &  Hao Liu

2 November 2023

• The role of multimodality and intertextuality in accentuating humor in Algerian Hirak ’s posters Mohammed Nahar Al-Ali &  Badra Hadj Djelloul

23 October 2023

• The use and perception of question tags in Trinidadian English Michael Westphal

19 October 2023

• The use of interlocking multi-unit turns in topic shifts Innhwa Park , Rachel S. Y. Chen , Jan Gorisch , Song Hee Park , Nadja Tadic &  Eiko Yasui

15 September 2023

• Syntax and music for interaction : ‘Music-taking-predicate’ constructions in Hebrew musician-to-musician discourse Yuval Geva

11 September 2023

• The pragmatics of advice-giving in the media discourse : The interplay of speaker gender and hearer gender Chihsia Tang

7 September 2023

• ‘I think’ in Swedish L1 and L2 group interactions Eveliina Tolvanen | PRAG 34:4 (2024) pp. 615–641

17 August 2023

• Creative metaphors and non-propositional effects : An experiment Valandis Bardzokas | PRAG 34:4 (2024) pp. 473–500

27 July 2023

• On the manifestness of assumptions : Gaining insights into commitment and emotions Didier Maillat | PRAG 33:3 (2023) pp. 460–485

25 July 2023

• Translating politeness on public notices with a directive function in Thessaloniki : A cross-cultural perspective Christopher Lees | PRAG 34:4 (2024) pp. 534–564
• An investigation of the formation and pragmatic strategies of “xx- zi ” : The case of Chinese internet buzzword juejuezi Junfang Mu , Lixin Zhang &  Yuyang Chen | PRAG 34:4 (2024) pp. 565–587

20 July 2023

• Notes on word order variation in Korean Chongwon Park &  Jaehoon Yeon | PRAG 34:4 (2024) pp. 588–614

4 July 2023

• Pragmatic markers in English and Italian film dialogue : Distribution and translation Liviana Galiano | PRAG 34:4 (2024) pp. 501–533
• Modal particles in ironic utterances : A common-ground approach to pretended surprise in verbal irony Holden Härtl &  Jana-Maria Thimm | PRAG 34:3 (2024) pp. 347–366

30 May 2023

• Audible gestures : Single claps as a resource for managing interaction Eric Hauser | PRAG 34:3 (2024) pp. 367–392

25 May 2023

• Interactional and categorial analyses of identity construction in the talk of female-to-male (FtM) transgender individuals in Japan Chie Fukuda | PRAG 34:3 (2024) pp. 319–346
• Polar answers : Accepting proposals in Greek telephone calls Theodossia-Soula Pavlidou &  Angeliki Alvanoudi | PRAG 34:3 (2024) pp. 447–472

23 May 2023

• Perceiving the organisation through a coding scheme : The construction of managerial expertise in organisational training Riikka Nissi &  Esa Lehtinen | PRAG 34:3 (2024) pp. 422–446

16 May 2023

• Dealing with missing participants in the opening phases of a videoconference Sabine Hoffmann &  Giolo Fele | PRAG 34:3 (2024) pp. 393–421
• Requests for concrete actions in interaction : How support workers manage client participation in mental health rehabilitation Camilla Lindholm , Jenny Paananen , Melisa Stevanovic , Elina Weiste &  Taina Valkeapää | PRAG 34:2 (2024) pp. 190–214
• ‘It seems my enemy is about having malaria’ : The sociocultural context of verbal irony in Nigeria Felix Nwabeze Ogoanah | PRAG 34:2 (2024) pp. 215–237
• Metarepresentational phenomena in Japanese and English : Implications for comparative linguistics Seiji Uchida | PRAG 33:3 (2023) pp. 436–459

15 May 2023

• Delving into suggestion speech acts in Chinese authoritative academic discourse : A cognitive pragmatic perspective Ke Li &  Wenyu Liu | PRAG 34:2 (2024) pp. 161–189
• Definite reference and discourse prominence in Longxi Qiang Wuxi Zheng | PRAG 34:2 (2024) pp. 293–318

10 May 2023

• The use of invitations to bid in classroom interaction Jae-Eun Park | PRAG 34:2 (2024) pp. 238–263
• Obituary PRAG 33:2 (2023) pp. 155–156

Volume 34 (2024)

Volume 33 (2023), volume 32 (2022), volume 31 (2021), volume 30 (2020), volume 29 (2019), volume 28 (2018), volume 27 (2017), volume 26 (2016), volume 25 (2015), volume 24 (2014), volume 23 (2013), volume 22 (2012), volume 21 (2011), volume 20 (2010), volume 19 (2009), volume 18 (2008), volume 17 (2007), volume 16 (2006), volume 15 (2005), volume 14 (2004), volume 13 (2003), volume 12 (2002), volume 11 (2001), volume 10 (2000), volume 9 (1999), volume 8 (1998), volume 7 (1997), volume 6 (1996), volume 5 (1995), volume 4 (1994), volume 3 (1993), volume 2 (1992), volume 1 (1991).

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Görlach, Manfred. 2003. English Words Abroad . Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Spear, Norman E., and Ralph R. Miller (eds). 1981. Information Processing in Animals: Memory Mechanisms . Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.

Article (in book)

Adams, Clare A., and Anthony Dickinson. 1981. “Actions and Habits: Variation in Associative Representation during Instrumental Learning.” In Information Processing in Animals: Memory Mechanisms , ed. by Norman E. Spear, and Ralph R. Miller, 143–186. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.

Article (in journal)

Claes, Jeroen, and Luis A. Ortiz López. 2011. “Restricciones pragmáticas y sociales en la expresión de futuridad en el español de Puerto Rico [Pragmatic and social restrictions in the expression of the future in Puerto Rican Spanish].” Spanish in Context 8: 50–72.

Rayson, Paul, Geoffrey N. Leech, and Mary Hodges. 1997. “Social Differentiation in the Use of English Vocabulary: Some Analyses of the Conversational Component of the British National Corpus.” International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 2 (1): 120–132.

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