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<title>Pragmatics 36:2 and 36:3</title>
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<description><![CDATA[<p><strong><span style="font-size: 18px; color: #1f497d;">The 2nd and 3rd issues of the IPrA journal <em>Pragmatics</em> are now available to IPrA members</span></strong></p><p><strong>Contents of <a href="https://pragmatics.international/page/Pragmatics">Pragmatics</a> 36:2</strong></p><p><b>Tracing relevance beyond codes and across modes:&nbsp;A multimodal pragmatic analysis of children’s rights advocacy campaign posters,&nbsp;</b>Turath&nbsp;Awad&nbsp;Al&nbsp;Tamimi&nbsp;and&nbsp;Thulfiqar&nbsp;H.&nbsp;Altahmazi&nbsp;</p><p><b>Delineating how PCIs develop into&nbsp;GCIs&nbsp;from&nbsp;a&nbsp;cognition-pragmatics diachronic&nbsp;perspective:&nbsp;A case study of Chinese&nbsp;<i>méimù,&nbsp;</i></b>Nina&nbsp;Liang,&nbsp;Yanfei&nbsp;Zhang&nbsp;and&nbsp;Yuan&nbsp;Zhang&nbsp;</p><p><b>Semantic and pragmatic&nbsp;properties of post-truth discourse:&nbsp;A description of reverse news on social media,</b>&nbsp;Zhonggang&nbsp;Sang&nbsp;and&nbsp;Tongtong&nbsp;Shi&nbsp;</p><p><b>Dual function of (inter)subjectivity in the use of&nbsp;<i>well</i>&nbsp;as a discourse marker,&nbsp;</b>Ryo&nbsp;Takamura&nbsp;</p><p><b>Dissenting emails in academia:&nbsp;The analysis of the micro- and macrostructure of Chinese university students’ emails to their lecturer in Spanish,&nbsp;</b>David&nbsp;Rodríguez&nbsp;Velasco&nbsp;and&nbsp;María&nbsp;Cecilia&nbsp;Ainciburu</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><strong>Contents of <a href="https://pragmatics.international/page/Pragmatics">Pragmatics</a> 36:3</strong></p><p><b>The role of translation in language standardization:&nbsp;The case of Egypt,&nbsp;</b>Hisham&nbsp;M.&nbsp;Ali&nbsp;</p><p><b>“Why we are voting Biden-Harris”:&nbsp;A multimodal cohesion analysis of the Democratic party’s 2020 Presidential Campaign&nbsp;ads,</b>&nbsp;Ana&nbsp;Belén&nbsp;Cabrejas-Peñuelas&nbsp;</p><p><b>Pragmatics and cultural institutions:&nbsp;Typology of questions as strategies for online communication,&nbsp;</b>María&nbsp;Isabel&nbsp;Hernández&nbsp;Toribio&nbsp;</p><p><b>The acquisition of locative inversion at&nbsp;the&nbsp;syntax-pragmatics interface by&nbsp;Chinese&nbsp;learners of English,&nbsp;</b>Shan&nbsp;Jiang&nbsp;and&nbsp;Huiping&nbsp;Zhang&nbsp;</p><p><b>Emotional language within influencer marketing on YouTube:&nbsp;A qualitative case study of twelve videos from Spanish YouTubers,&nbsp;</b>Sanna&nbsp;Pelttari&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p>]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 6 May 2026 10:03:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Pragmatics 36:1</title>
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<description><![CDATA[<p><strong><span style="color: #1f497d; font-size: 18px;">Pragmatics 36:1</span></strong></p><p><strong><span style="color: #000000; font-size: 14px;">Contents of <a href="https://pragmatics.international/page/Pragmatics">Pragmatics</a> 36:1</span></strong></p><p><b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">The sociopragmatic dimension of language use and evaluations of interactional behaviour:&nbsp;A cross-cultural investigation of Italian and British-English speakers’ perceptions,&nbsp;</span></b><b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"></span></b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Valentina&nbsp;Bartali</span><b style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"></b></p><p><b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Claims of not-knowing as patients’ responses in psychodynamic psychotherapy,&nbsp;</span></b><b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"></span></b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Carolina&nbsp;Fenner</span><b style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"></b></p><p><b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Quotation headlines in the printed British quality press:&nbsp;(Re-)contextualisation meets entextualisation,&nbsp;</span></b><b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"></span></b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Anita&nbsp;Fetzer</span><b style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"></b></p><p><b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Loan words can cause intercultural miscommunication:&nbsp;The case of Hebrew&nbsp;<i>shahid,&nbsp;</i></span></b><b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><i></i></span></b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Sandy&nbsp;Habib</span><b style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"></b></p><p><b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">“What are you talking about? That is not true” — Men’s and women’s disagreements in English and Italian interactions,&nbsp;</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Vittorio&nbsp;Napoli</span><b style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"></b></p><p><b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Blended origo&nbsp;—&nbsp;Deixis in virtual reality,&nbsp;</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Karsten&nbsp;Senkbeil</span><b style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"></b></p>]]></description>
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<title>Pragmatics 35:4</title>
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<description><![CDATA[<p><b><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: 16px; background-color: #eeeeee; text-decoration-line: underline;">Contents of&nbsp;</span><em style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; background-color: #eeeeee;"><a href="https://pragmatics.international/page/Pragmatics" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent;">Pragmatics</a>&nbsp;</em><span style="font-size: 16px; background-color: #eeeeee; text-decoration-line: underline;">35:4</span></span></b></p><p><b><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">Brazilian Portuguese&nbsp;<i>wh</i>-clefts in a multilevel analytic perspective, </span></b><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">Aroldo&nbsp;Andrade&nbsp;&amp;&nbsp;Juliano&nbsp;Desiderato&nbsp;Antonio</span></p> <p><b><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">Towards a distinction between non-euphemistic and euphemism-based politically correct expressions:&nbsp;A relevance-theoretic perspective, </span></b><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">Tatiana&nbsp;Golubeva</span></p> <p><b><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">China’s real estate agents’ persuasion realizations on WeChat Moments, </span></b><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">Jianyou&nbsp;He&nbsp;&amp;&nbsp;Dengshan&nbsp;Xia</span></p> <p><b><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">“It’s nothing serious, take it easy”:&nbsp;Chinese doctors’ emotion-regulating discourses on the online medical consultation websites, </span></b><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">Qingsheng&nbsp;Jiang</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">,&nbsp;</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">Yansheng&nbsp;Mao&nbsp;&amp;&nbsp;Yihang&nbsp;Wang</span></p> <p><b><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">Crazy literature:&nbsp;A case of mock self-impoliteness, </span></b><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">Shiyu&nbsp;Liu</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">,&nbsp;</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">Rong&nbsp;Chen&nbsp;&amp;&nbsp;Fengguang&nbsp;Liu</span></p> <p><b><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">Eye closures in spoken Hebrew:&nbsp;Conversational functions and meaning semiosis, </span></b><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">Leon&nbsp;Shor</span></p>]]></description>
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<title>Pragmatics 35:3</title>
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<description><![CDATA[<p><span style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Contents of&nbsp;<em><a href="https://pragmatics.international/page/Pragmatics">Pragmatics</a>&nbsp;</em>35:3</span></span></p><p><b><span>Prosodic features of polite speech:&nbsp;Evidence from Korean interactional data, </span></b><span>Lucien&nbsp;Brown</span><span>,&nbsp;</span><span>Grace&nbsp;Eunhae&nbsp;Oh&nbsp;&amp;&nbsp;Kaori&nbsp;Idemaru</span></p><p><b><span>Metaphors to describe sanctions against Iran in American and Iranian newspapers, </span></b><span>Rasoul&nbsp;Mohammad&nbsp;Hosseinpur&nbsp;&amp;&nbsp;Mahdi&nbsp;Mansouri<b></b></span></p><p><b><span>A relevance-theoretic analysis of Colloquial Singapore English&nbsp;<i>hor, </i></span></b><span>Junwen&nbsp;Lee</span></p><p><b><span>‘Where have you been hiding this voice?’:&nbsp;Judges’ compliments on the TV talent show&nbsp;<i>Arab&nbsp;Idol, </i></span></b><span>Fathi&nbsp;Migdadi</span><span>,&nbsp;</span><span>Muhammad&nbsp;A.&nbsp;Badarneh&nbsp;&amp;&nbsp;Areej&nbsp;Qudaisat</span></p><p><b><span>The use of the non-lexical sound&nbsp;<i>öö</i>&nbsp;in&nbsp;Hungarian same-turn self-repair, </span></b><span>Zsuzsanna&nbsp;Németh</span></p><p><b><span>Why not focus on combating the virus?&nbsp;On the active and passive egocentrism in communications, </span></b><span>Baiyao&nbsp;Zuo</span></p>]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 10 Oct 2025 11:54:00 GMT</pubDate>
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