Pragmatics and Society

Editor-in-Chief
ORCID logoDaria Dayter | Tampere University | daria.dayter at tuni.fi
Co-editors
ORCID logoHartmut Haberland | Roskilde University
ORCID logoHermine Penz | Karl Franzens University of Graz
Review Editor
ORCID logoThomas C. Messerli | University of Basel
Founding Editor
Jacob L. Mey | University of Southern Denmark
Pragmatics and Society puts the spotlight on societal aspects of language use, while incorporating many other facets of society-oriented pragmatic studies. It brings together a variety of approaches to the study of language in context, inspired by different research perspectives and drawing on various disciplines, for instance, sociology, psychology, developmental and cognitive science, anthropology, media research, and computer-related social studies. It is concerned with how language use and social normativity influence and shape each other, for instance, in education (the teaching and acquisition of first and second languages), in political discourse (with its manipulative language use), in the discourse of business and the workplace, and in all kinds of discriminatory uses of language (gender- and class-based or other). Finally, it pays special attention to the impact that our increased dependency on the computer is having on communication and interaction (especially as seen in the social media), as well as to the role of pragmatics in guiding social and racial emancipatory developments. The journal does not accept unsolicited reviews.

Pragmatics and Society publishes its articles Online First.

ISSN: 1878-9714 | E-ISSN: 1878-9722
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Latest articles

22 March 2024

  • Actions of known-answer questions in guided tours : Designing further talk and soliciting participation
    Yuri Hosoda David Aline
  • 8 March 2024

  • Interactional multimodal metadiscourse in public health posters during the COVID-19 pandemic
    Aisha Saadi Al-Subhi
  • Talking about the deceased in the Jish linguaculture : A semantic and pragmatic analysis
    Sandy Habib
  • Gendered subtle bias in Danish TV election debates
    Mie Femø Nielsen
  • 13 February 2024

  • The World of Daily Life : Doing a search for (e‑)shopping purposes
    Gitte Rasmussen , Elisabeth Kristiansen Søren Vigild Poulsen
  • 12 February 2024

  • The language of threat : An analysis of Swedish online alternative newspaper reports on BLM protests
    Marta Andersson
  • 22 January 2024

  • “That was a long time ago” : Memory work spanning the arc from normal healthy aging to cognitive impairment
    Elena Bandt Annette Gerstenberg | PS 15:1 (2024) pp. 33–48
  • Singling out : A method of group inclusion for residents living with dementia
    Gitte Rasmussen | PS 15:1 (2024) pp. 157–177
  • Negotiating the value of rule of law through attitudinal positioning : A corpus-based analysis of Chinese digital indictments
    Chunxu Shi
  • 18 January 2024

  • Contradicting potential climate misinformation during televised debates
    Søren Beck Nielsen
  • ‘Proto-conversation’ as a practice in late-stage dementia care
    Lars-Christer Hydén , Anna Ekström Ali Reza Majlesi | PS 15:1 (2024) pp. 178–195
  • Scalar implicature : An encyclopedic semantic approach
    Yanfei Zhang , Nina Liang Shaojie Zhang
  • 22 December 2023

  • Learning from initial reviews of multilingual graphics illustrating dementia caregiving
    Boyd H. Davis , Margaret Maclagan Meredith Troutman-Jordan | PS 15:1 (2024) p. 85
  • “Let’s Just Forget It!” : Discourse of inclusion in a Japanese nursing home
    Toshiko Hamaguchi | PS 15:1 (2024) pp. 140–156
  • Verbal play in dementia care : A longitudinal study
    Shumin Lin | PS 15:1 (2024) pp. 122–139
  • Code accommodation as a measure of inclusion for bilingual people living with dementia of the Alzheimer’s type : A case study
    Carolin Schneider Birte Bös | PS 15:1 (2024) pp. 49–66
  • 21 December 2023

  • Attitudes to language and bilingualism in residential care for older persons in Ireland : Inclusiveness and construction of positive identities
    Nicole Müller Angela M. Medina | PS 15:1 (2024) pp. 67–84
  • Conversation practices that foster or hinder inclusivity during interactions involving persons with dementia
    Trini Stickle | PS 15:1 (2024) pp. 196–213
  • Determiners of social inclusion and exclusion in the dementia context : The perspective of family carers
    Alison Wray Axel Bergström | PS 15:1 (2024) pp. 17–32
  • 18 December 2023

  • On an even playing field of haiku making : An inclusive activity of creative verbal art
    Yoshiko Matsumoto , Harumi Maeda , Emily Yu Wan Hsiao-Wen Liao | PS 15:1 (2024) pp. 104–121
  • 15 December 2023

  • Chinese patients’ unsolicited presentation of primary concerns
    Zi Yang Xueming Wang
  • Taking actions to enhance inclusivity of persons living with dementia
    Yoshiko Matsumoto Heidi E. Hamilton | PS 15:1 (2024) pp. 1–16
  • 1 December 2023

  • Representation of women in English and Persian proverbs : A Cultural-Linguistic perspective
    Ali Dabbagh Esmat Babaii
  • Negotiating academic conflict in discussion sections of doctoral dissertations
    F. Esmaili Esmaeel Abdollahzadeh
  • Conspiracy theories and passion : The pragmatics of a Bulgarian debate on vaccination
    Todor Hristov
  • Klaus-Uwe Panther . 2022. Introduction to Cognitive Pragmatics
    Reviewed by Kim Ebensgaard Jensen
  • Francisco Yus . 2023. Pragmatics of Internet Humour
    Reviewed by Ruby Rong Wei Yanlan Hu
  • 30 November 2023

  • María Elena Placencia Zohreh R. Eslami (Eds.). 2020. Complimenting Behavior and (Self)Praise across Social Media. New Contexts and New Insights
    Reviewed by Juan J. Colomina-Almiñana | PS 15:2 (2024) pp. 345–349
  • Elin McCready . 2019. The Semantics and Pragmatics of Honorification: Register and Social Meaning
    Reviewed by Chengtuan Li Xiaorui Li
  • 6 November 2023

  • Juliane House Daniel Kádár . 2021. Cross-cultural pragmatics
    Reviewed by Roberto Graci
  • 2 November 2023

  • Dealing with the dual demands of expertise and democracy : How experts create proximity to the public without undermining their status as experts
    Henrike Padmos , Hedwig te Molder Tom Koole
  • 30 October 2023

  • Discursive positioning of doctors and e‑patients in online medical consultations in China : An orientation toward affective affiliation
    Yu Zhang
  • Douglas Walton , Fabrizio Macagno Giovanni Sartor . 2019. Statutory Interpretation. Pragmatics and Argumentation
    Reviewed by Jan Engberg | PS 15:3 (2024) pp. 495–499
  • Piotr Cap . 2022. The Discourse of Conflict and Crisis: Poland’s Political Rhetoric in the European Perspective
    Reviewed by Roberto M. Lobato
  • 20 October 2023

  • On the constitutional relevance of non‑discursive enlanguaged doings to sociomaterial practices
    Rasmus Gahrn-Andersen
  • Exploring lexical associations in English as a Lingua Franca interactions : Taking verbs of perception as an example
    Yang Pang
  • 17 October 2023

  • Politely warning? A usage-based analysis of directives in Japanese disaster warnings on Twitter
    Amy Ives Takebe
  • 10 October 2023

  • Affect in the pragmeme of delivering a health directive : Toward an analysis of affective potential in two BBC videos
    Ming-Yu Tseng
  • A politeness-theoretic approach to mitigated disagreements in online radio medical consultations
    Xin Zhao
  • 25 September 2023

  • Maria Economidou-Kogetsidis , Milica Savić Nicola Halenko (eds.). 2021. Email Pragmatics and Second Language Learners
    Reviewed by Yushun Yang Wulin Ma | PS 14:5 (2023) pp. 801–806
  • 22 September 2023

  • Xinren Chen . 2021. Exploring identity work in Chinese communication
    Reviewed by Muhammad Afzaal | PS 14:6 (2023) pp. 944–948
  • 21 August 2023

  • Viviana Masia . 2021. The Manipulative Disguise of Truth: Tricks and threats of implicit communication
    Reviewed by Chao Jiang Zhou-min Yuan | PS 14:4 (2023) pp. 656–660
  • Jef Verschueren . 2021. Complicity in Discourse and Practice
    Reviewed by Daniel N. Silva | PS 14:4 (2023) pp. 661–665
  • 7 August 2023

  • Patients resist, doctors manage : The management of patient resistance by doctors in Chinese Online Medical Consultation
    Yansheng Mao , Shuang Wei Xiaojiang Wang
  • 27 July 2023

  • Degrees of negative judgement : Insights from a qualitative study of six sentencing remarks on judges’ sentencing practices
    Xin Dai
  • Defining openness in teachers’ ‘open’ questions : A pragmatic approach
    Chrysi Rapanta
  • 25 July 2023

  • Culture and identity in critical remarks : A case study of Russian and Israeli academic classroom discourse
    Claudia Zbenovich , Tatiana Larina Vladimir Ozyumenko | PS 15:3 (2024) pp. 351–375
  • 6 July 2023

  • Finnish and French public signs from commercial premises during the Covid-19 pandemic
    Johanna Isosävi | PS 14:2 (2023) pp. 306–333
  • Fear appeals in Chinese public signs of COVID-19 prevention in local communities
    Mian Jia Yi Zhao | PS 14:2 (2023) pp. 281–305
  • Meschonnic, Wittgenstein and translation as form of life
    Maíra Mendes Galvão | PS 14:3 (2023) pp. 434–441
  • Disseminating risk communication : Advice offered on non-official public signage during the Covid-19 pandemic
    Eva Ogiermann Spyridoula Bella | PS 14:2 (2023) pp. 334–357
  • “Money can buy health” : Risk and protection in Hong Kong’s COVID-19 advertisement-scape
    Vincent Wai Sum Tse , Jasper Zhao Zhen Wu Andre Joseph Theng | PS 14:2 (2023) pp. 257–280
  • Pragmatic functions of humor in Berlin’s directive Covid-19 Signs
    Rita Tamara Vallentin | PS 14:2 (2023) pp. 236–256
  • Solidarity and support in Belgian residential linguistic landscapes during the Covid-19 outbreak
    Mieke Vandenbroucke Fien De Malsche | PS 14:2 (2023) pp. 210–235
  • Covid-19 WhatsApp sticker memes as public signs in Oman
    Najma Al Zidjaly Zumurrod Al Barhi | PS 14:2 (2023) pp. 358–381
  • Introduction : The interpersonal functions of public signs during the Covid-19 pandemic
    Eva Ogiermann | PS 14:2 (2023) pp. 197–209
  • Obituary : Jacob L. Mey III
    PS 14:3 (2023) pp. 383–385
  • 20 June 2023

  • Parents’ indirect utterances in an Indonesian family : A case of pragmatic act
    Budi Setiawan | PS 14:5 (2023) pp. 717–731
  • 12 June 2023

  • Criticizing for the public interest and aligning with others : How Jordanians constructed their online criticisms of lockdown breaches during the COVID-19 pandemic
    Muhammad A. Badarneh Malak Damiri
  • 6 June 2023

  • Comparing compliments in Face-to-Face vs. online interactions among Iranian speakers of Persian
    Ali Derakhshan , Zohreh R. Eslami Farzaneh Shakki | PS 15:2 (2024) pp. 320–344
  • Correcting the scientific record : Legitimation strategies in retraction notices
    Yuting Lin
  • 30 May 2023

  • Evidential meanings in native and learner Japanese and English : Implications for the assessment of speaker certainty
    Luna Filipović , Mika Brown Paul E. Engelhardt | PS 14:3 (2023) pp. 484–508
  • Deconstructing imagined identities and imagined communities through humor : Evidence from adult L2 learners’ humorous narratives
    Spyridoula Gasteratou Villy Tsakona | PS 14:3 (2023) pp. 461–483
  • Blame-avoiding strategies for a digital scandal : A critical discourse analysis of Mark Zuckerberg’s Congressional hearings
    Ming Liu Yanxi Lu | PS 15:3 (2024) pp. 471–494
  • Deontic authority-based resolution of deontic right-based resistance in online medical consultation
    Minwen Wei Yongping Ran | PS 15:2 (2024) pp. 295–319
  • Attacks and remedies in online public opinion reversal events
    Yiman Wu , Wei Ren Yi Zhang | PS 15:3 (2024) pp. 448–470
  • 23 May 2023

  • Where there is panic, the media are close by : A pragmatic study of the alleviation of COVID-19 panic by the Chinese state media
    Qingsheng Jiang , Yansheng Mao Zhou-min Yuan | PS 14:4 (2023) pp. 611–637
  • 10 May 2023

  • Conventions of author self-reference in Chinese academic writing : Modesty as motivation
    Rong Chen Dafu Yang | PS 15:3 (2024) pp. 425–447
  • Common ground management via evidential markers in Turkish
    Kadri Kuram | PS 15:2 (2024) pp. 275–294
  • “Trust X, because Y” : A corpus-assisted analysis of trust-related metalanguage labels and trustworthiness cues
    Kun Yang | PS 14:5 (2023) pp. 753–776
  • Kate Scott . 2022. Pragmatics Online
    Reviewed by Ying Dai | PS 14:3 (2023) pp. 509–513
  • 28 April 2023

  • “A tour guide losing her cool” : Emotional stance and social positioning in doing moral work
    Chaoqun Xie Ying Tong | PS 14:5 (2023) pp. 732–752
  • 21 April 2023

  • Novel veiling and concealing euphemisms in political discourse : A relevance-theoretic perspective
    Tatiana Golubeva | PS 14:4 (2023) pp. 593–610
  • 20 April 2023

  • A study on the intertextuality of Russian media : Focusing on the analysis criteria for intertextuality
    Na-young Kim | PS 14:6 (2023) pp. 869–882
  • 18 April 2023

  • An epistemic interpretation of responses to advice resistance on Chinese phone-ins of family problem counseling
    Zhuo Peng | PS 14:6 (2023) pp. 807–823
  • Variation and society : The periphrases tener/haber que + infinitive by sex/gender of participants in Spanish
    María José Serrano | PS 14:4 (2023) pp. 568–592
  • A contrastive study of Chinese and American online complaints : Speech act construction in relation to face management
    Ming Wei | PS 15:3 (2024) pp. 376–399
  • Representations of ‘leftover women’ in the Chinese English-medium newspapers : A key keyword analysis of the thematic concepts
    Yating Yu Phoenix Lam | PS 14:5 (2023) pp. 695–716
  • 13 April 2023

  • Historical imprints on Chinese ideological given names
    Heng Su , Peyman G. P. Sabet Grace Q. Zhang
  • 11 April 2023

  • The role of assessments in providing evasive answers in news interviews
    Abdulrahman Alroumi El Mustapha Lahlali | PS 14:6 (2023) pp. 883–907
  • Making up or taunting? Positive rapport and negative rapport strategies in response to sharing business Airbnb’s online negative reviews: A cross-linguistic study
    Wei Feng Leyang An | PS 15:3 (2024) pp. 400–424
  • Self-help and masculinity : Speech acts in an online men’s group
    Alexandra Krendel | PS 14:6 (2023) pp. 844–868
  • Metaphorical framing in news : How liberals and conservatives talk
    Maryam Saneie Moghadam Reza Ghafar Samar | PS 14:4 (2023) pp. 638–655
  • 6 April 2023

  • A socio-pragmatic analysis of the Turkish discourse markers of ‘şey’, ‘yani’, and ‘işte’ based on educational level of speakers
    Ayşe Altıparmak | PS 14:6 (2023) pp. 908–943
  • A marathon to nowhere : Conceptualisation of the integrations of the Western Balkans into the EU through the accession is a race metaphor
    Zdravko Babić , Milica Vuković-Stamatović Vesna Bratić | PS 14:4 (2023) pp. 546–567
  • The interpersonal semantics of rhetoric : Ideological variations and their rhetorical construction in the GM debate in China
    Wenge Chen Ranran Zhang | PS 15:2 (2024) pp. 246–274
  • Examining the use of reflexive metadiscourse in the construction of affiliative communication in group email requests
    Jamie McKeown | PS 14:6 (2023) pp. 824–843
  • “I hope this is your last sorrow” : Condolence strategies in colloquial Persian
    Amir Sheikhan | PS 15:2 (2024) pp. 215–245
  • 3 April 2023

  • Parentheses used as pragmatic strategies in Chinese online socialization
    Jie Li Yanling Lin | PS 14:3 (2023) pp. 442–460
  • From evaluative authorities to involved narrators : Variation and change in first-person singulars used in the culture sections of six European newspapers from 1960 to 2010
    Pekka Posio Riie Heikkilä | PS 14:5 (2023) pp. 667–694
  • Identity gatekeeping in New Work Order organizations : Quality care discussions during performance appraisal interviews
    Dorien Van De Mieroop | PS 14:4 (2023) pp. 519–545
  • Rhetorical strategies for the construction of a corporate identity : A case study based on Huawei annual reports
    Nan Wu , Meichun Liu Jingyuan Zhang | PS 14:5 (2023) pp. 777–800
  • Getting involved or acting in defence : How a corporation uses the ritual act of apology in response to public criticism
    Na Yang Jiabei Hu | PS 14:3 (2023) pp. 410–433
  • Jessica S. Robles Ann Weatherall (eds.). 2021. How Emotions Are Made in Talk
    Reviewed by Songsong Zhang Jinyang Hu | PS 14:3 (2023) pp. 514–518
  • 21 March 2023

  • Initiating reason-for-the-call action in mundane mobile phone conversation
    Ali Kazemi | PS 14:3 (2023) pp. 386–409
  • 14 March 2023

  • Idioms, proverbs and body part expressions on Yiedie “wellbeing” in Akan
    Kofi Agyekum | PS 14:1 (2023) pp. 1–22
  • “Jerry was a terrific host!” “You were a brilliant guest!” : Reciprocal compliments on Airbnb
    Irene Cenni Camilla Vásquez | PS 14:1 (2023) pp. 117–142
  • One issue, two genres : A comparison of interactional metadiscourse in the news
    Yun Han Chen Ju Chuan Huang | PS 14:1 (2023) pp. 47–69
  • On the nature of pragmatic constituents : Considerations on the semantics/pragmatics debate
    Roberto Graci | PS 14:1 (2023) pp. 170–184
  • Would you like a bag for that? Environmental awareness and changing practices for closing buying and selling encounters in retail shopping
    Elisabeth Dalby Kristiansen Gitte Rasmussen | PS 14:1 (2023) pp. 143–169
  • Semiotic manipulation strategies employed in Iranian printed advertisements
    Khadijeh Mohamadi Hiwa Weisi | PS 14:1 (2023) pp. 70–89
  • Disagreement strategies and institutional face attack in Chinese mainstream media editorial comments on Weibo
    Jie Xia | PS 14:1 (2023) pp. 23–46
  • Metaphor analysis of the COVID-19 public health emergency on Chinese national news media
    Cun Zhang Zhengjun Lin | PS 14:1 (2023) p. 90
  • Francisco Yus . 2022. Smartphone Communication. Interactions in the App Ecosystem
    Reviewed by Tiancheng Chen Xinren Chen | PS 14:1 (2023) pp. 190–195
  • Chaoqun Xie , Francisco Yus Hartmut Haberland (eds.). 2021. Approaches to Internet Pragmatics: Theory and practice
    Reviewed by Shaopeng Li Yongxiang Yang | PS 14:1 (2023) pp. 185–189
  • 6 December 2022

  • Virtual dialogues in monologic political discourse : Constructing privileged and oppositional future in political speeches
    Piotr Cap | PS 13:5 (2022) pp. 747–768
  • Doing things with discourse in the mediated political arena : Participation and pluralism of discursive action
    Anita Fetzer | PS 13:5 (2022) pp. 769–792
  • When invoked voices blame real politicians : Confrontational blaming in a speech from Austria’s “commemorative year” 2018
    Helmut Gruber | PS 13:5 (2022) pp. 793–814
  • Polemic polyphony : Voices of the fools and the righteous in Sheikh Jarrah, East Jerusalem
    Chaim Noy | PS 13:5 (2022) pp. 815–836
  • Dialogic language and meta-language in a conflictual discourse
    Ohala Spokoiny Zohar Livnat | PS 13:5 (2022) pp. 837–860
  • Resemblance in comments/posts interaction : Forms and functions of dialogicity
    Elda Weizman Ayelet Kohn | PS 13:5 (2022) pp. 861–884
  • Dialogic meaning-making in political settings : An introduction
    Elda Weizman Zohar Livnat | PS 13:5 (2022) pp. 731–746
  • 4 November 2022

  • Situated co-operative creativity
    Brian L. Due | PS 13:4 (2022) pp. 684–702
  • The performance and relational role of toast intervention in Chinese dining contexts
    Jie Li Xinren Chen | PS 13:4 (2022) pp. 625–643
  • Trust me, trust my words : Trustworthiness construction in Chinese online medical crowd-funding discourses
    Yansheng Mao Xin Zhao | PS 13:4 (2022) pp. 703–724
  • Mitigating requesting acts by deaf Jordanian adults
    Mohammed Nahar Al-Ali Salsabeel M. Shatat | PS 13:4 (2022) pp. 663–683
  • Kwame Nkrumah’s construction of ‘the African people’ via the Unite or Perish myth : A discourse-historical analysis of populist performance
    Mark Nartey | PS 13:4 (2022) pp. 605–624
  • The role of prior and actual situational context in conversational routines produced by Chinese learners of English
    Yuqi Wang | PS 13:4 (2022) pp. 585–604
  • Reduction in and out of context
    Jonathan R. White | PS 13:4 (2022) pp. 555–584
  • Multivaried acceptance of post-editing in China : Attitude, practice, and training
    Jianwei Zheng Wenjun Fan | PS 13:4 (2022) pp. 644–662
  • Emma Betz , Arnulf Deppermann , Lorenza Mondada Marja-Leena Sorjonen . 2021. OKAY across Languages: Toward a Comparative Approach to its Use in Talk-in-interaction
    Reviewed by Theodossia-Soula Pavlidou | PS 13:4 (2022) pp. 725–729
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