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• acculturation116, 135–137

• activism21, 118

• actors, social4, 91–92

• adolescents8, 166–168, 173, 175–176, 186–191

• analysis
  • qualitative91, 174
  • quantitative65, 167, 171, 174
  • thematic8, 11, 139, 147

• argumentation4, 8, 25, 39–41, 44–45, 57, 59–61, 89–91, 105, 107, 110
  • schemes43–45, 61

• Aristotle43, 60

• background questionnaires10, 166, 171, 173–174, 177–178

• Belgium9, 39–41, 45–46, 48, 51, 53, 56, 58

• Bell, John89–90, 93, 95–96, 110, 112

• body positivity118–119, 126, 130, 133, 136–137

• Brexit78, 85, 87–88

• Britain3, 7–9, 35, 62–68, 79, 84–90, 102, 111–112, 137, 146, 164

• cisgender privileges149

• class140

• climate change8–9, 14–38

• communicative functions10, 41, 138–165

• concordance21–22, 69, 71–73, 94

• content analysis8, 166, 174, 180, 188

• contexts1–2, 4–8, 11–12, 15–16, 19–20, 28–30, 33–34, 42, 62–65, 78–79, 84–85, 111–112, 138–139, 142, 154, 156, 161–162, 187–188
  • cultural3–4
  • discursive5, 23
  • interaction15, 33
  • pedagogic188
  • societal115, 117
  • socio-historical5, 7
  • stylistic5–6

• corpus-assisted discourse studies (CADS)8, 11, 62, 68, 87

• corpus linguistics8, 11, 63, 86, 88, 111

• Covid-1934, 39–40, 43, 45, 47, 49, 51–52, 55, 57, 60, 68

• critical discourse analysis (CDA)4, 8, 10–12, 62, 64, 88, 90–91, 114–115, 122, 136–137

• Daily Mirror63, 66, 68, 81

• Daily Telegraph63, 66

• deictic approaches42, 177, 182, 186

• denaturalization144, 159–161

• discourse analysis6, 8, 12, 38, 47, 63, 68, 86, 136

• discourse-historical approach (DHA)7–8, 10–11, 89–91, 112

• discrimination12–13, 88, 91, 112, 137, 152, 159, 161, 164–165
  • experienced149, 152, 156
  • language-based145, 152, 155–156

• discursive
  • acts141, 144, 158
  • practices10, 109–110, 131, 139

• Dutch40–41, 45–46, 59, 102

• emergence principle143–144

• English as a Lingua Franca (ELF)8, 166–192
  • interactions166
  • setting10

• epistemic9, 14–37, 91, 101
  • communities14, 19, 27, 31, 33–34
  • stance8–9, 14, 18, 26–27, 35–36, 38

• ethos9, 39–41, 43–45, 47–51, 53–55, 57–61

• Europe46, 62, 65, 67–68, 71, 73, 78–79, 81, 83, 86–87, 171

• European Research Council54–55

• European Union3, 9, 62–87

• Eurosceptic63

• evidentiality17–18, 27, 35, 37

• Facebook20, 35, 37, 60

• false adequation160

• Fashion Nova Curve114–115, 119–123, 125–136

• Finnish62, 65, 85, 146, 162

• France46, 56, 60, 77

• freedom of speech159

• functions
  • argumentative39, 43, 45, 57
  • discursive9

• gender
  • assigned138, 155
  • binary138, 158, 160, 162
  • identification3
  • identity141–142, 151–152, 159, 163–164
  • roles9, 149
  • terms143, 159
  • trans10, 41, 138–140, 143, 145–148, 151–153, 155–162, 164–165

• genres5–6, 8, 16, 59, 90, 92, 95, 99, 102, 111

• German10–11, 34, 77, 81, 166, 169, 171–173, 177–180, 183–184, 186, 189

• Greece43, 79, 83

• group membership1, 8, 10, 114–117, 134

• groups
  • cultural19
  • dominant116
  • ethnic177
  • minority116
  • professional54, 58
  • values19

• The Guardian63, 66–67, 69, 71, 77–81, 83, 85

• Hansard7, 66, 86

• hedging19, 23, 25, 28–30, 32, 36

• identification1, 9, 18, 21, 63, 92, 166–168, 175, 179, 183–184, 187–188

• identity
  • assigned168
  • claimed142
  • national62, 85–86, 88
  • nonbinary142, 156–157, 160–162
  • personal37, 60, 87
  • trans143, 160, 162

• identity construction5, 8, 91, 138–139, 141, 143, 158, 162–163, 174, 180, 186

• indexicality2, 11, 92, 158
  • principle143

• in-group3, 9–10, 27, 34, 62–88, 99, 104, 114–117, 122, 132, 134–135

• Instagram7, 10, 37, 41, 114–115, 119, 121–122, 125, 131, 135–136

• intercultural communication8, 167, 169, 187, 189, 191

• intercultural interactions166, 168–169, 173, 187

• interculturality190, 192

• interpersonal functions14–18, 22, 28, 30–33

• intersubjectivity9, 14, 17, 31, 34, 37

• intragroup marginalization8, 10, 114–116, 122, 125–127, 131–135

• knowledge
  • construction15, 31, 34
  • shared background33, 99

• letter95, 102–104, 108–109

• linguistic construction9, 21, 37, 60, 87, 139

• media6–8, 12, 45, 59, 63–64, 68
  • contemporary Western135
  • mainstream19, 120
  • mass92
  • new8
  • print7
  • traditional39

• metacomments96, 109, 128–130
  • general129

• metadiscourse35–36, 98
  • editorial94, 97

• misgendering10, 138–139, 141–143, 145, 147–153, 155–157, 159–160, 162, 164
  • accidental143, 155, 159–160
  • effects of150, 155
  • habitual143
  • political143

• modality34, 37

• multilingualism87, 164, 167, 171, 190

• narrative95–97, 105, 107, 167, 190

• neopronouns139–140, 148, 150, 154, 156

• news15, 21, 32, 63, 90, 100, 110, 140

• newspapers6–7, 9, 63–64, 67, 70, 89–90, 92–95, 99–100, 103, 106, 111

• New York Times136, 164

• The Oracle89–90, 93–95, 97–105, 108–110

• other-positioning3, 10, 89–113

• out-group3, 9–10, 27, 64, 84–85, 104, 114–115, 117, 144

• pandemic9, 39–40, 45–48, 51–54, 56–59, 87

• parliamentary debates8–9, 62–63, 68, 71–73, 77–78, 81–82, 84, 88

• personal pronouns1, 9, 32, 36, 64, 88, 97, 132, 134, 161, 165

• perspectivation4, 89–91, 105, 107, 110

• plus-size
  • fashion114–115, 119, 122, 134, 136
  • group3, 114–117, 124–125, 128, 130, 132–135

• polarization114, 122, 134

• political discourse35, 43, 64, 87

• politicians7, 9, 16, 35, 39–42, 45–47, 50, 57–60, 64, 86

• positionality158–159

• positionality principle143–144

• positioning1, 8, 10–11, 89–90, 92, 97, 105, 107, 110, 112, 166–191

• pragmatic function14, 30, 32

• pragmatic markers3, 18, 29–30, 35

• predication4, 89–90, 91–92, 99, 102, 104, 110

• pronouns2–3, 9–10, 12, 16, 22–24, 64–66, 68–69, 97–98, 102, 138–142, 145, 148–151, 154–155, 157–162, 174–177
  • binary139, 142, 148, 150, 154, 157–159
  • correct145, 155, 159
  • first-person2, 10, 42, 52, 54, 56, 58, 62–65, 68, 84–85, 98, 174–176, 180, 182–185, 187
  • incorrect141, 149
  • multiple139, 154
  • nonbinary138–140, 145, 154, 157, 161–163
  • novel139, 161
  • plural42, 180
  • second-person97, 106, 131, 175–176
  • third-person8, 10, 41, 100, 105, 138, 141, 151, 158, 161

• pronoun use148, 150, 153

• public opinion89–90, 94, 110

• Reddit7, 9, 14, 16, 19–26, 28–33, 35, 37, 145

• reference systems4, 10, 166–167, 169, 174–178, 180–183, 186–188

• referential function41, 139, 141

• relationality principle143–144

• representation5, 8–9, 15, 17, 62–63, 65, 68, 72–73, 81–82, 84, 114–115, 118, 126–127, 129–130

• school exchange10, 166–167, 169

• self-misgendering143, 164

• self-positioning89, 100–102, 104, 107

• self-presentation9, 42–43, 47, 50–51, 57–59, 64, 90, 101, 109

• self-serving bias10, 89, 109–110, 113

• Snapchat37

• social37, 60, 87
  • constructionist approaches91
  • contexts1–13
  • deixis2, 92
  • identity5, 114, 116–117, 136–137, 167
  • media2–3, 7–9, 14–16, 18–19, 22, 25, 34–35, 37–39, 114–137
  • roles1–2, 5, 7–8, 91, 110, 112, 177

• sociopragmatics89

• Spanish9, 46, 48–49, 51, 53, 59–60

• spoken language7–8, 66

• subjectivity11, 14, 16–17, 30–31, 36–38

• Tanzanian10, 166, 169, 171–173, 177–180, 183, 186–187, 189–191

• TeenELF corpus10, 171, 173–176, 180, 182, 188

• territory of information24

• Topham, Edward89–90, 94, 102, 110

• Twitter (currently X)7–9, 14–16, 18–29, 31–43, 45–46, 48, 55, 57, 59–61, 119

• UK (United Kingdom)62–65, 78–79, 82, 84–88, 111, 123

• Ukraine83, 85, 178

• war6, 27, 83, 85

• women36, 57, 115, 118–120, 123, 126, 128–130, 135, 139, 153, 160

• The World89–90, 93–100, 102–106, 108–110