Pragmatics and Society

Online-first articles

The following articles have been published online-first, and have not yet been published in an issue.

13 February 2025

Doing newsworthiness in execution news and death penalty ideology
Orawee Bunnag, Krisda Chaemsaithong and Keun-Hye Shin | 25 pp.
Us and them: Discourses on October 20, 2020 #endsars shooting at the Leikki toll gate in Nigerian newspapers
Ayo Osisanwo and Ruth Karachi Benson Oji | 22 pp.

6 February 2025

Citizens’ polarised discourses on climate change and mobility: The conflict with Barcelona mayor Ada Colau
Esperanza Morales-López and Alan Floyd | 19 pp.
Comparing Chinese and British entrepreneurial pitches in reality TV shows: A corpus-based appraisal analysis
Huiyu Zhang, Honglv Liu, Wujing Deng and yuanhong wei | 24 pp.

3 February 2025

‘What happened to the un-omitted subjects?’: Variation in referential choices for first and second person subjects in spoken Korean
Narah Lee | 23 pp.
Commenting behavior as a mirror of parasocial relationships and emotional attachment on YouTube: A qualitative study of comments on product-promoting videos in Spanish
Sanna Pelttari | 22 pp.
Review of Blitvich (2024): Pragmatics, (Im)politeness, and Intergroup Communication: A Multilayered, Discursive Analysis of Cancel Culture
Youzhi Sun | 4 pp.

23 January 2025

The metapragmatic act of debating in the media
Ronald R. Jacobsen | 22 pp.

16 January 2025

Simple language, sophisticated actions: Sequence-initiating actions by novice English users in an educational context
Eric Hauser and Zachary Nanbu | 29 pp.

19 December 2024

Deictic shifts and re-contextualization in translation: A case study of English and Persian parallel texts
Masoumeh Diyanati and Mohammad Amouzadeh | 24 pp.

28 November 2024

The pragmeme of accommodation in Christian condolence messages in Nigeria
Temitope Michael Ajayi and Temidayo Akinrinlola | 22 pp.

21 November 2024

Review of Ädel & Östman (2023): Risk Discourse and Responsibility
Anaïs Augé | 6 pp.
“I am not populist” Mechanisms for the re-negotiation of category membership on Twitter
Laura Filardo-Llamas, Barbara De Cock, Philippe Hambye and Nadezda Shchinova | 23 pp.
When the discourse of strategy meets the discourse of spirituality: A study of the recontextualization of strategy discourse in a Church organization
Pekka Pälli and Esa Lehtinen | 25 pp.
Recontextualizing knowledge in academic video publications: A discourse analysis of multimodal science dissemination
María Ángeles Velilla Sánchez | 25 pp.

28 October 2024

When TCM debate meets Covid-19 discourse: Identifying evidentiality in Chinese social-mediated communication
Yun Pan and Altman Yuzhu Peng | 30 pp.

17 October 2024

“Our group was by far the coolest” Multimodal team-building practices and English as a lingua franca in a virtual intercultural game
Milene Mendes de Oliveira, Tiina Räisänen and Tuire Oittinen | 28 pp.

10 October 2024

You have no right! : The dynamics of power in Colonial Louisiana Spanish
Jeremy King | 20 pp.
“Why does he appear so ordinary, but he can be so confident” A critical discourse analysis of controversial feminism in Chinese stand-up comedian Yang Li’s Talk Show Speeches
Jiayu Wang and Yaru Zhao | 22 pp.

12 September 2024

Interveners’ performance of “identity work” in the context of Chinese bystander intervention
Jie Li and Xinren Chen | 21 pp.

25 July 2024

Face attributes in interviews with Iranian politicians
Masoumeh Bahman and Veronica Lowe | 20 pp.
I am a doctor in your shoes: The empathic strategies employed by Chinese doctors during text-based online medical consultations
Xin Zhao, Yansheng Mao and Yihang Wang | 21 pp.

16 July 2024

Political language gaffes and the importance of Hearer’s meaning
Nelly Tincheva | 23 pp.

21 June 2024

Saying “sorry” in online language: A pragmatic analysis of apologies posted on a Chinese online shopping website
Jia Yang | 24 pp.

31 May 2024

The humorous effect of routine formulas in Spanish and English televised monologues
Montserrat Mir and Patxi Laskurain Ibarluzea | 22 pp.