• The sociopragmatic dimension of language use and evaluations of interactional behaviour: A cross-cultural investigation of Italian and British-English speakers’ perceptions
  Valentina Bartali | PRAG 36:1 (2024) pp. 1–36 | Article
• Loan words can cause intercultural miscommunication: The case of Hebrew shahid
  Sandy Habib | PRAG 36:1 (2025) p. 89 | Article
• “What are you talking about? That is not true” — Men’s and women’s disagreements in English and Italian interactions
  Vittorio Napoli | PRAG 36:1 (2025) pp. 109–136 | Article
• Delineating how PCIs develop into GCIs from a cognition-pragmatics diachronic perspective: A case study of Chinese méimù
  Nina Liang, Yanfei Zhang & Yuan Zhang | PRAG 36:2 (2025) pp. 192–224 | Article
• Semantic and pragmatic properties of post-truth discourse: A description of reverse news on social media
  Zhonggang Sang & Tongtong Shi | PRAG 36:2 (2025) pp. 225–253 | Article
• Dual function of (inter)subjectivity in the use of well as a discourse marker
  Ryo Takamura | PRAG 36:2 (2025) pp. 254–275 | Article
• Dissenting emails in academia: The analysis of the micro- and macrostructure of Chinese university students’ emails to their lecturer in Spanish
  David Rodríguez Velasco & María Cecilia Ainciburu | PRAG 36:2 (2025) pp. 276–305 | Article
• Emotional language within influencer marketing on YouTube: A qualitative case study of twelve videos from Spanish YouTubers
  Sanna Pelttari | PRAG 36:3 (2025) pp. 424–450 | Article
• Syntax and music for interaction: ‘Music-taking-predicate’ constructions in Hebrew musician-to-musician discourse [*] *
  Yuval Geva | PRAG 35:1 (2023) pp. 25–50 | Article
• The use and perception of question tags in Trinidadian English
  Michael Westphal | PRAG 35:1 (2023) pp. 101–128 | Article
• Indexing a withdrawal from one’s previously-taken position: Using the multiple saying duì duì duì in Mandarin Chinese conversation
  Shuling Zhang & Mengying Qiu | PRAG 35:1 (2024) pp. 129–154 | Article
• Move combinations in the conclusion section of applied linguistics research articles
  Tomoyuki Kawase | PRAG 35:2 (2024) pp. 185–203 | Article
• What kind of laughter? The triple function of “Hhh” as a contempt, intention, and interpretation marker
  Pnina Shukrun-Nagar & Galia Hirsch | PRAG 35:2 (2023) pp. 264–293 | Article
• Multiple repair solutions in response to open class repair initiators (OCRIs) in next turn: The case of hospitality and tourism service encounters in English as a lingua franca (ELF)
  Aonrumpa Thongphut & Jagdish Kaur | PRAG 35:2 (2024) pp. 294–319 | Article
• A relevance-theoretic analysis of Colloquial Singapore English hor
  Junwen Lee | PRAG 35:3 (2024) pp. 369–394 | Article
• ‘Where have you been hiding this voice?’: Judges’ compliments on the TV talent show Arab Idol
  Fathi Migdadi, Muhammad A. Badarneh & Areej Qudaisat | PRAG 35:3 (2024) pp. 395–422 | Article
• China’s real estate agents’ persuasion realizations on WeChat Moments
  Jianyou He & Dengshan Xia | PRAG 35:4 (2024) pp. 529–554 | Article
• “It’s nothing serious, take it easy”: Chinese doctors’ emotion-regulating discourses on the online medical consultation websites
  Qingsheng Jiang, Yansheng Mao & Yihang Wang | PRAG 35:4 (2024) pp. 555–578 | Article
• Responses to English compliments on language ability: A cross‑generational study of Saudi Arabian university female students and lecturers
  Randa Saleh Maine Alharbi, Pat Strauss & Lynn Grant | PRAG 34:1 (2023) pp. 1–27 | Article
• Transcending the senpai ‘senior’/kōhai ‘junior’ boundary through cross-speaker repetition in Japanese
  Saeko Machi | PRAG 34:1 (2023) pp. 109–133 | Article
• Requests for concrete actions in interaction: How support workers manage client participation in mental health rehabilitation
  Camilla Lindholm, Jenny Paananen, Melisa Stevanovic, Elina Weiste & Taina Valkeapää | PRAG 34:2 (2023) pp. 190–214 | Article
• ‘It seems my enemy is about having malaria’: The sociocultural context of verbal irony in Nigeria
  Felix Nwabeze Ogoanah | PRAG 34:2 (2023) pp. 215–237 | Article
• Interactional and categorial analyses of identity construction in the talk of female-to-male (FtM) transgender individuals in Japan
  Chie Fukuda | PRAG 34:3 (2023) pp. 319–346 | Article
• Dealing with missing participants in the opening phases of a videoconference
  Sabine Hoffmann & Giolo Fele | PRAG 34:3 (2023) pp. 393–421 | Article
• Polar answers: Accepting proposals in Greek telephone calls
  Theodossia-Soula Pavlidou & Angeliki Alvanoudi | PRAG 34:3 (2023) pp. 447–472 | Article
• Creative metaphors and non-propositional effects: An experiment
  Valandis Bardzokas | PRAG 34:4 (2023) pp. 473–500 | Article
• Pragmatic markers in English and Italian film dialogue: Distribution and translation
  Liviana Galiano | PRAG 34:4 (2023) pp. 501–533 | Article
• An investigation of the formation and pragmatic strategies of “xx-zi”: The case of Chinese internet buzzword juejuezi
  Junfang Mu, Lixin Zhang & Yuyang Chen | PRAG 34:4 (2023) pp. 565–587 | Article
• ‘I think’ in Swedish L1 and L2 group interactions
  Eveliina Tolvanen | PRAG 34:4 (2023) pp. 615–641 | Article
• The use of boosters and evidentials in British campaign debates on the Brexit referendum
  María Luisa Carrió-Pastor & Ana Albalat-Mascarell | PRAG 33:1 (2022) pp. 1–22 | Article
• An empirical study of Chinese university student advisors’ dynamic identity construction in the context of individual consultation
  Jing Chen & Xin Zhao | PRAG 33:1 (2022) pp. 23–48 | Article
• Development of the use of discourse markers across different fluency levels of CEFR: A learner corpus analysis
  Lan-fen Huang, Yen-liang Lin & Tomáš Gráf | PRAG 33:1 (2022) pp. 49–77 | Article
• How to be authentic on Instagram: Self-presentation and language choice of Basque university students in a multi-scalar context
  Agurtzane Elordui & Jokin Aiestaran | PRAG 33:2 (2022) pp. 184–208 | Article
• Japanese no datta and no de atta in written discourse: Past forms of no da and no de aru
  Hironori Nishi | PRAG 33:2 (2022) pp. 260–284 | Article
• Overlaps in collaboration adjustments: A cross-genre study of female university students’ interactions in American English and Japanese
  Lala U. Takeda | PRAG 33:2 (2022) pp. 285–312 | Article
• Non-literal uses of proper names in XYZ constructions: A relevance theory perspective
  Ewa Wałaszewska | PRAG 33:3 (2023) pp. 368–392 | Article
• Deceptive clickbaits in the relevance-theoretic lens: What makes them similar to punchlines
  Maria Jodłowiec | PRAG 33:3 (2022) pp. 418–435 | Article
• Metarepresentational phenomena in Japanese and English: Implications for comparative linguistics
  Seiji Uchida | PRAG 33:3 (2023) pp. 436–459 | Article
• Intergenerational interviews in Negev Arabic: Negotiating lexical, discursive and cultural gaps
  Roni Henkin | PRAG 33:4 (2023) pp. 532–558 | Article
• Korean imperatives at two different speech levels: Alternate ways of taking part in others’ actions and affairs
  Mary Shin Kim | PRAG 33:4 (2023) pp. 559–591 | Article
• “Let’s … together”: Rapport management in Chinese directive public signs
  Xiaochun Sun & Xinren Chen | PRAG 33:4 (2023) pp. 618–640 | Article
• If I testify about others, my testimony is valid: A study of other-justified discourses in Chinese online medical crowdfunding
  Xin Zhao & Yansheng Mao | PRAG 33:4 (2023) pp. 641–662 | Article
• Polar answers and epistemic stance in Greek conversation
  Angeliki Alvanoudi | PRAG 32:1 (2021) pp. 1–27 | Article
• Navigating the complex social ecology of screen-based activity in video-mediated interaction
  Ufuk Balaman & Simona Pekarek Doehler | PRAG 32:1 (2021) pp. 54–79 | Article
• Well-prefaced constructed dialogue as a marker of stance in online abortion discourse
  Kristen Fleckenstein | PRAG 32:1 (2021) p. 80 | Article
• Out-grouping and ambient affiliation in Donald Trump’s tweets about Iran: Exploring the role of negative evaluation in enacting solidarity
  Mohammad Makki & Michele Zappavigna | PRAG 32:1 (2021) pp. 104–130 | Article
• Framing in interactive academic talk: A conversation-analytic perspective
  Yun Pan | PRAG 32:1 (2021) pp. 131–157 | Article
• Material and embodied resources in the accomplishment of closings in technology-mediated business meetings
  Tuire Oittinen | PRAG 32:2 (2021) pp. 299–327 | Article
• Epistemic calibration: Achieving affiliation through access claims and generalizations
  Emmi Koskinen & Melisa Stevanovic | PRAG 32:3 (2021) pp. 354–380 | Article
• Shifting perspective on indexicals
  Mark Bowker | PRAG 32:4 (2022) pp. 518–536 | Article
• Picking fights with politicians: Categories, partitioning and the achievement of antagonism
  Jack B. Joyce & Linda Walz | PRAG 32:4 (2022) pp. 562–587 | Article
• Accounts as acts of identity: Justifying business closures on COVID-19 public signs in Athens and London
  Spyridoula Bella & Eva Ogiermann | PRAG 32:4 (2022) pp. 620–647 | Article
• Dear, my dear, my lady, your ladyship : Meaning and use of address term modulation by my
  Anouk Buyle | PRAG 31:1 (2020) pp. 33–61 | Article
• Alternative questions and their responses in English interaction
  Veronika Drake | PRAG 31:1 (2020) pp. 62–86 | Article
• Enacting ‘Being with You’: Vocative uses of du (“you”) in German everyday interaction
  Pepe Droste & Susanne Günthner | PRAG 31:1 (2020) p. 87 | Article
• The pragmatics of text-emoji co-occurrences on Chinese social media
  Xiran Yang & Meichun Liu | PRAG 31:1 (2020) pp. 144–172 | Article
• Managing trouble spots in conversation: Other-initiated repair elicitations produced by a bilingual youth with autism
  Wendy Klein | PRAG 31:2 (2020) pp. 225–249 | Article
• Positively bitter and negatively sweet? Conventional implicatures and compatibility condition of emotive taste terms in Korean vs. English
  Suwon Yoon | PRAG 31:2 (2020) pp. 303–329 | Article
• The emergent construction of feminist identity in interaction
  Olivia Hirschey Marrese | PRAG 31:3 (2021) pp. 406–429 | Article
• “Abeg na! we write so our comments can be posted!”: Borrowed Nigerian Pidgin pragmatic markers in Nigerian English
  Foluke Olayinka Unuabonah, Folajimi Oyebola & Ulrike Gut | PRAG 31:3 (2021) pp. 455–481 | Article
• Understandable public anger: Legitimation in banking after the 2008 crisis
  Ruth Breeze | PRAG 31:4 (2021) pp. 483–508 | Article
• The question-response system in Mandarin conversation
  Wei Wang | PRAG 31:4 (2021) pp. 589–616 | Article
• The development of interlanguage pragmatic markers in alignment with role relationships
  Hao-Zhang Xiao, Chen-Yu Dai & Li-Zheng Dong | PRAG 31:4 (2021) pp. 617–646 | Article
• The socialisation of interactional rituals: A case study of ritual cursing as a form of teasing in Romani
  Dániel Z. Kádár & Andrea Szalai | PRAG 30:1 (2019) pp. 15–39 | Article
• Calling Mr Speaker ‘Mr Speaker’: The strategic use of ritual references to the Speaker of the UK House of Commons
  Peter Bull, Anita Fetzer & Dániel Z. Kádár | PRAG 30:1 (2019) pp. 64–87 | Article
• “By the elders’ leave, I do”: Rituals, ostensivity and perceptions of the moral order in Iranian Tehrani marriage ceremonies
  Sofia A Koutlaki | PRAG 30:1 (2019) p. 88 | Article
• Emotions through texts and images: A multimodal analysis of reactions to the Brexit vote on Flickr
  Catherine Bouko | PRAG 30:2 (2020) pp. 222–246 | Article
• Identity (self-)deconstruction in Chinese police’s civil conflict mediation
  Wenjing Feng & Xinren Chen | PRAG 30:3 (2020) pp. 326–350 | Article
• The Korean hortative construction revisited: Prototypical and extended functions
  Ahrim Kim & Iksoo Kwon | PRAG 30:3 (2020) pp. 351–380 | Article
• Bonding across Chinese social media: The pragmatics of language play in “精 (sang) 彩 (xin) 有 (bing) 趣 (kuang)” construction
  Chaoqun Xie, Ying Tong & Francisco Yus | PRAG 30:3 (2020) pp. 431–457 | Article
• Confronting blackface: Stancetaking in the Dutch Black Pete debate
  Sigurd D’hondt | PRAG 30:4 (2019) pp. 485–508 | Article
• Pragmatic functions of I think in computer-mediated, cross-cultural communication between Taiwanese and Japanese undergraduate students
  Maria Angela Diaz, Ken Lau & Chia-Yen Lin | PRAG 30:4 (2019) pp. 509–531 | Article
• The pragmeme of disagreement and its allopracts in English and Serbian political interview discourse
  Milica Radulović & Vladimir Ž. Jovanović | PRAG 30:4 (2020) pp. 586–613 | Article
• Rejecting and challenging illocutionary acts
  Mariya Chankova | PRAG 29:1 (2019) pp. 33–56 | Article
• Managing relationships through repetition: How repetition creates ever-shifting relationships in Japanese conversation
  Saeko Machi | PRAG 29:1 (2019) pp. 57–82 | Article
• Searches and clicks in Peninsular Spanish
  Derrin Pinto & Donny Vigil | PRAG 29:1 (2019) p. 83 | Article
• Toward a pragmatic account and taxonomy of valuative speech acts
  Ernesto Wong García | PRAG 29:1 (2019) pp. 107–132 | Article
• Making ‘yes’ stronger by saying ‘no’: Utterance-initial iya in statements of ‘yes’ in Japanese
  Hironori Nishi | PRAG 29:1 (2019) pp. 133–154 | Article
• In the beginning there was conversation: Fictive direct speech in the Hebrew Bible
  Sergeiy Sandler & Esther Pascual | PRAG 29:2 (2019) pp. 250–276 | Article
• The group in the self: A corpus-assisted discourse studies approach to personal and group communication at the European Parliament
  María Calzada Pérez | PRAG 29:3 (2019) pp. 357–383 | Article
• Modulating troubles affiliating in initial interactions: The role of remedial accounts
  Natalie Flint, Michael Haugh & Andrew John Merrison | PRAG 29:3 (2019) pp. 384–409 | Article
• Appraising and reappraising of compliments and the provision of responses: Automatic and non-automatic reactions
  Mostafa Morady Moghaddam | PRAG 29:3 (2019) pp. 410–435 | Article
• Tracing emergent multilectal styles: Forms and functions of code-switching among Ovambos in urban Namibia
  Gerald Stell | PRAG 29:3 (2019) pp. 436–462 | Article
• Impolite viewer responses in Arabic political TV talk shows on YouTube
  Bahaa-eddin A. Hassan | PRAG 29:4 (2019) pp. 521–544 | Article
• Collocation analysis of news discourse and its ideological implications
  Huei-ling Lai | PRAG 29:4 (2019) pp. 545–570 | Article
• Analysis of politeness strategies in Japanese and Korean conversations between males: Focusing on speech levels and speech level shifts
  Eun Mi Lee | PRAG 28:1 (2018) pp. 61–92 | Article
• Refusals in Early Modern English drama texts: New insights, new classification
  Isabella Reichl | PRAG 28:2 (2018) pp. 253–270 | Article
• Nationalism and gender in the representation of non-Japanese characters’ speech in contemporary Japanese novels
  Satoko Suzuki | PRAG 28:2 (2018) pp. 271–302 | Article
• Forms of address in Basque
  Xabier Alberdi-Larizgoitia | PRAG 28:3 (2018) pp. 303–332 | Article
• The multimodal enactment of deontic and epistemic authority in Indian meetings
  Jonathan Clifton, Dorien Van De Mieroop, Prachee Sehgal & Aneet | PRAG 28:3 (2018) pp. 333–360 | Article
• An initial description of syntactic extensions in spoken Czech
  Florence Oloff & Martin Havlík | PRAG 28:3 (2018) pp. 361–390 | Article
• Hawaiʻi Creole in the public domain: Humor, emphasis, and heteroglossic language practice in university commencement speeches
  Scott Saft, Gabriel Tebow & Ronald Santos | PRAG 28:3 (2018) pp. 417–438 | Article
• The structural format and rhetorical variation of writing Chinese judicial opinions: A genre analytical approach
  Zhengrui Han, Vijay K. Bhatia & Yunfeng Ge | PRAG 28:4 (2018) pp. 463–488 | Article
• The effects of English-medium instruction on the use of textual and interpersonal pragmatic markers
  Jennifer Ament, Carmen Pérez Vidal & Júlia Barón Parés | PRAG 28:4 (2018) pp. 517–546 | Article
• Face as an interactional construct in the context of connectedness and separateness: An empirical approach to culture-specific interpretations of face
  Ulrike Schröder | PRAG 28:4 (2018) pp. 547–572 | Article
• Negative existentials: A problem still unsolved
  Zoltán Vecsey | PRAG 28:4 (2018) pp. 599–616 | Article
• Multimodal language use in Savosavo: Refusing, excluding and negating with speech and gesture
  Jana Bressem, Nicole Stein & Claudia Wegener | PRAG 27:2 (2017) pp. 173–206 | Article
• Manipulation as an ideological tool in the political genre of Parliamentary discourses
  Ana Belén Cabrejas-Peñuelas | PRAG 27:2 (2017) pp. 207–234 | Article
• Vicissitudes of laughter: Managing interlocutor affiliation in talk about humanitarian aid
  Kevin McKenzie | PRAG 27:2 (2017) pp. 257–300 | Article
• Interpersonal video communication as a site of human sociality: A special issue of Pragmatics
  Richard Harper, Rod Watson & Christian Licoppe | PRAG 27:3 (2017) pp. 301–318 | introduction
• The ‘interrogative gaze’: Making video calling and messaging ‘accountable’
  Richard Harper, Sean Rintel, Rod Watson & Kenton O’Hara | PRAG 27:3 (2017) pp. 319–350 | Article
• Skype appearances, multiple greetings and ‘coucou’: The sequential organization of video-mediated conversation openings
  Christian Licoppe | PRAG 27:3 (2017) pp. 351–386 | Article
• The Skype paradox: Homelessness and selective intimacy in the use of communications technology
  Richard H. Harper, Rod Watson & Jill Palzkill Woelfer | PRAG 27:3 (2017) pp. 447–474 | Article
• The question of politeness in political interviews
  Marcia Macaulay | PRAG 27:4 (2017) pp. 529–552 | Article
• “I want a real apology”: A discursive pragmatics perspective on apologies
  Caroline L. Rieger | PRAG 27:4 (2017) pp. 553–590 | Article
• Conspiracy theory and the critical enterprise
  Kevin McKenzie | PRAG 15:2-3 (2005) pp. 229–250 | Article
• “You are not allowed to pull someone’s tail!” a cross-cultural comparison of socio-moral comments in Estonian and Swedish peer interaction
  Boel De Geer & Tiia Tulviste | PRAG 15:4 (2005) pp. 349–368 | Article
• Echo answers in native/non-native interaction
  Jan Svennevig | PRAG 13:2 (2003) pp. 285–309 | Article
• Greek and German telephone closings: Patterns of confirmation and agreement
  Theodossia-Soula Pavlidou | PRAG 8:1 (1998) pp. 79–94 | Article
• Overt and non-overt subjects in Persian
  Niloofar Haeri | PRAG 3:1 (1989) pp. 155–166 | Article
• A tale of tradition and modernization: The conceived self-identities by TCM doctors in the Digital Health Era
  Yansheng Mao & Shuang Wei | Published online 2 June 2025 | Article
• Pragmatic functions of lê ‘what’ in Longxi Qiang: Beyond questioning
  Wuxi Zheng | Published online 8 August 2025 | Article
• A contrastive study of hedging in English and Chinese academic spoken discourse
  Yuxiang Duan & Liesbeth Degand | Published online 18 August 2025 | Article
• Effects of gender and generation on Chinese self-praise on social media
  Yaping Guo, Wanrong Chen & Wei Ren | Published online 8 August 2025 | Article
• Grammar in the service of pragmatics: The tripartite address system in Contemporary Hasidic Yiddish
  Sonya Yampolskaya | Published online 27 May 2025 | Article
• Unprompted self-disclosure in first encounter interactions: An analysis of getting-to-know-you conversations between new acquaintances
  Xuehua Lai, Mei Yuit Chan, Afida Mohamad Ali & Geok Imm Lee | Published online 16 December 2025 | Article
• ¿Cómo va a ser posible? The situated meanings of periphrastic and synthetic future-inflected wh-interrogatives in Spanish
  Malte Rosemeyer & María Sol Sansiñena | Article
• “Tía, me dolió, ¿sabes?”: Negotiating affiliation through the vocative tía in Spanish conversational storytelling
  Virginia Acuña Ferreira | Published online 19 May 2025 | Article
• Development of pragmatic awareness during study abroad: A focus on pragmatic markers
  Annarita Magliacane & Ariadna Sánchez-Hernández | Published online 18 August 2025 | Article
• Verbo-visual metafunctions and interactional metadiscourse strategic cues in Arabic advertisements: Verbo-visual strategies in Arabic ads
  Mohammed Nahar Al-Ali | Article
• Translanguaging across Japanese and English: Linguistic normativities and indexical meanings
  Junko Saito | Published online 31 October 2025 | Article
• A pragmatic typology of WhatsApp sticker functions
  Esther Linares Bernabéu & Francisco Yus | Published online 15 December 2025 | Article
• Infinitives, discourse viewpoint, and referential interpretation of the initiator in Spanish digital news discourse
  Miguel A. Aijón Oliva | Published online 31 July 2025 | Article
• Production and understanding of change‑of‑state tokens in English talk‑in‑interaction among L1 and L2 speakers
  Min-Chang Sung & Sun-Young Oh | Published online 1 August 2025 | Article
• Flattery in historical China: A pragmatic perspective
  Fengguang Liu, Li Zhang, Juliane House & Dániel Z. Kádár | Published online 6 May 2025 | Article
• Tailoring language to social hierarchies: A pragmatic study on the salutation in Zeng Guofan’s Family Letters
  Zepeng Wang, Haoming Li, Yansheng Mao & Li Zheng | Published online 19 December 2025 | Article
• The agentive passive in Slovenian from a corpus pragmatics perspective
  Tamara Mikolič Južnič & Agnes Pisanski Peterlin | Article
• A systematic review of reliability in corpus-based metadiscourse studies
  Basma Bouziri & Ruth Breeze | Published online 5 May 2026 | Article
• Turn-initial ki ‘because’-clauses as a rhetorical responsive practice in Hebrew Facebook comments
  Leon Shor, Pnina Shukrun-Nagar & Zohar Livnat | Published online 31 March 2026 | Article
• Beyond interruptions: Co-constructed activities in MPs’ unofficial turns in Finnish, French, and German parliamentary debates
  Johanna Isosävi, Heike Baldauf-Quilliatre, Christophe Gagne & Eero Voutilainen | Published online 26 May 2026 | Article
• 😮#油宝知道 (Baby of Oil knows)#: Translanguaging in playing cute on corporate social media
  Dicong Gou, Shengyu Zhao & Ya Sun | Published online 2 June 2026 | Article
• Unsolicited advice in mediatised Chinese New Year celebrations: An interaction ritual approach
  Wenrui Shi, Dániel Z. Kádár, Juliane House & Fengguang Liu | Published online 19 February 2026 | Article
• Insights into interaction management through backchannels: The case of French Belgian Sign Language and Catalan Sign Language
  Alysson Lepeut & Sílvia Gabarró-López | Article
• Interrogation as domination: A forensic pragmatics inquiry of questioning strategies and Gricean violations in Philippine bilingual courtroom interactions
  Danica P. Francisco & John Arvin V. De Roxas | Published online 26 May 2026 | Article
• Doing pragmatics with style: A corpus-pragmatic study of NOT-negation in the writings of Ta-Nehisi Coates [*] *
  Yulia Hathaway | Published online 18 December 2025 | Article

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