Pragmatics

Volume 24, Issue 1 (2014)

2014. ca. 125 pp.

Publishing status: Available | Original publisher:International Pragmatics Association (IPrA)

© International Pragmatics Association

Available under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial (CC BY-NC) 4.0 license.

https://doi.org/10.1075/prag.24.1

Table of Contents

First-order politeness in rapprochement and distancing cultures: Understandings and uses of politeness by Spanish native speakers from Spain and Spanish nonnative speakers from the U.S. María Jesús Barros García and Marina Terkourafi	1–34
Identities and linguistic varieties in Japanese: An analysis of language ideologies as participants’ accomplishments Chie Fukuda	35–62
Text and contextual information retrieval: A relevance-theoretic approach to cohesion Patricia Kolaiti	63–81
The alternation of desu/-masu with plain form speech and the constitution of social class in Japanese high school English lessons Sarah S. Meacham	83–104
The role of pragmatic function in the grammaticalization of English general extenders Maryann Overstreet	105–129
The discursive management of identity in interviews with female former colonials of the Belgian Congo: Scrutinizing the role of the interviewer Dorien Van De Mieroop and Jonathan Clifton	131–155
Laughing when nothing’s funny: The pragmatic use of coping laughter in the negotiation of conversational disagreement Shawn Warner-Garcia	157–180

Subjects

Linguistics

Discourse studies

Main BIC Subject

CFG: Semantics, Pragmatics, Discourse Analysis

Main BISAC Subject

LAN009000: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General