Disciplinary academic writing as a form of knowledge construction undergoes continuous change over time reflecting processes both inside and outside of academia. Each disciplinary community... Read More

The extension of corpus-based analyses to the field of pragmatics, while mutually beneficial, has faced challenges unique to pragmatics compared to other fields of linguistics.... Read More

Recent research of media coverage of the refugee crisis has proved that European press played a central role in framing refugees’ and migrants’ arrival to... Read More

The globalized world requires effective communication across cultures. Intercultural pragmatics, emerging from the intersection of classical pragmatics, intercultural communication, and interlanguage research (House, 2002), goes... Read More

Although Spanish dialects are assumed to be mutually intelligible (Merino & Grijelmo 2019), they present certain dialectal features that can be oriented to as problematic... Read More

The concept of delocutive, first described by Benveniste in 1958 (Fr. délocutifs; see an overview in Larcher, 2003), has enjoyed increased scholarship in recent decades... Read More

Farewells are universal speech acts that have not received much attention in cross-cultural empirical studies (Baehren, 2022). Although they are traditionally analysed as being void... Read More

This videoposter presentation (given in English) investigates the construction of meaning in interactive contexts, focusing on argument citation in debates and social media interactions. In... Read More

Pragmatic instruction has been demonstrated to be effective in improving L2 learners’ pragmatic ability, with various factors, such as the type and length of instruction,... Read More

Basque language, compared to its neighbouring languages, has a set of particles that indicate the speaker’s source of knowledge —evidential element— and/or her stance towards... Read More