Teaching impoliteness through rap music in the second-language classroom
As a recent study (Gasbarra & Samu, in press) has demonstrated Italian L2/FL teachers tend to deal with several aspects of pragmatics in class, such... Read More
The pragmatic functions of please compared to the (im)polite Norwegian politeness marker vennligst
Norwegian-English dictionaries describe the pragmatic function of vennligst as being that of a polite request and translate it into please. Our interest in vennligst started... Read More
A cross-cultural analysis of disagreement in spoken Chinese and French from a frame-based approach of politeness
This study explores how Chinese and French native speakers express disagreement in an informal context through a corpus of spoken French and Chinese (33,169 words... Read More
A Tale of Two Stories: How and why we tell allegories
Allegory is a widely used communicative device, where a single story could be read as having two storylines: one literal, and another figurative. It is... Read More
Three rich-lexicon theories of slurs: A comparison
Many authors writing on slurs think that they are lexically rich, in the sense that their lexical meaning comprises both a descriptive dimension and an... Read More
Integrating Relevance Theory and Critical Realism for the analysis of manipulation
Despite the difficulty of ascertaining the manipulative intent of text producers, early pragmatic and discourse approaches (e.g. de Saussure, 2005) only focused on text producers... Read More
The pragmatics of enthusiasm: Intercultural, societal and Danish perspectives
The aim of this paper is to explore the “pragmatics of enthusiasm”, i.e. the language of eagerness and intensity, from an intercultural-pragmatic perspective. In the... Read More
From asymmetry in talk-in-interaction to power in society: how interactional order meets social order in medical consultations
While the observation of asymmetry has been persistent in research on doctor-patient interaction (cf: Pilnick and Dingwall, 2011), the results do not provide a holistic... Read More