Functions of Language

Articles
• Constructing humour through the use of English in Chinese stand-up comedy
  Hongqiang Zhu & Pan Pan | pp. 193–221
• The Mandarin rising-intoned Éi (诶) particle in third position: A change-of-state token marking an epistemic discrepancy
  Yaxin Wu, Chongyuan Zhao & Chase Wesley Raymond | pp. 222–245
• Negative conditionals in English: A corpus analysis of register variation
  Olli O. Silvennoinen | pp. 246–275
• Dependent-marked anticausatives in Old Norse-Icelandic: Modeling productive and unproductive alternations
  Jóhanna Barðdal & Catrine Sandal | pp. 276–318
• Establishment and application of gesture-pragmatic corpus of chinese kindergarten teachers (G-PCCKT)
  Zhe Wang | pp. 319–359
Book reviews
• Giorgia Mannaioli. 2025. Vagueness as an implicitating persuasive strategy
  Reviewed by Lingyu Yi | pp. 360–364
• Kristin Davidse, Ngum Meyuhnsi Njende & Gerard O’Grady. 2023. Specificational and presentational there-clefts: Redefining the field of clefts
  Reviewed by William B. McGregor | pp. 365–370
• Richard L. Sparks. 2025. Second language anxiety: Affective or linguistic variable?
  Reviewed by Zhen Bao | pp. 371–376

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