Pragmatics and Society
Volume 17, Issue 6 (2026)
Expected December 2026. iv, 208 pp.
Publishing status: In production
© John Benjamins Publishing Company
Table of Contents
- Social deconstruction and power negotiation: A discursive study of “Africa and the world” on TED talkTolulope Deborah Iredele & Augustine Uzoma Nwagbara | pp. 753–774
- A corpus-based study of the shifts of evidentiality in the institutional interpreting of Chinese political discourseGuangjun Wu & Jiamin Wang | pp. 775–798
- Signs of belonging: Unveiling the superdiverse tapestry of City Road’s linguistic landscapeJosé María Santos Rovira | pp. 799–824
- “Can eat less? Big elder sister”: Address and (im)politeness in danmu video commentsYongping Ran & Xiaoyi Bi | pp. 825–850
- Failed execution in inferential pragmatics: Rethinking felicity conditions through underdetermined discourseFrancesco Mercadante | pp. 851–877
- Casting nets, keeping fish: fishing metaphors in China’s digital dating oceanAmber Wanwen Wang, Kathleen Ahrens & Winnie Zeng | pp. 878–907
- How thanking serves as a face-repaying act? A contrastive study of Chinese and Japanese thanking on Social MediaQi Xiao & Ling Zhou | pp. 908–934
- Juliane House & Dániel Z. Kádár. 2025. Language and Politics: A Cross-Cultural Pragmatic PerspectiveReviewed by Li Jiaoting & Sun Yongmei | pp. 935–940
- Juliane House & Dániel Z. Kádár. 2024. Cross-Cultural Pragmatics and Foreign Language LearningReviewed by Hossein Davari & Masoud Dehghan | pp. 941–948
- Francisco Yus. 2023. Pragmatics of Internet HumourReviewed by Jidong Wu & Xinman Liu | pp. 949–954
- Mihaela Popa-Wyatt. 2024. Harmful Speech and ContestationReviewed by Ruby Rong Wei & Xiao Chen | pp. 955–960
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