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A study of linguistic mitigation, writer empathy and recipient personality in requesting and bringing bad news via email

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Journal of Pragmatics Pub Date : 2025-02-04 DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2025.01.010

Nicolas Ruytenbeek , Thomas Holtgraves

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Communicative intentions and liminal signs in interaction with people living with late-stage dementia

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Journal of Pragmatics Pub Date : 2025-02-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2025.01.006

Lars-Christer Hydén , Anna Ekström , Ali Reza Majlesi

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Omo, what are you waiting for? The discourse-pragmatic imports of omo in Nigerian multilingual online interactions

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Journal of Pragmatics Pub Date : 2025-02-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2024.12.011

Rotimi Oladipupo, Aderonke Akinola

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“I'm telling you”: The use of interactional metadiscourse in Chinese live streaming commerce

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Journal of Pragmatics Pub Date : 2025-02-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2025.01.001

Qian Liu, Wei Cheng

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What the meta-illocutionary lexicon can tell us about speech act taxonomies

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Journal of Pragmatics Pub Date : 2025-02-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2025.01.002

Dominik Jan Schoppa

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Journal of Pragmatics Pub Date : 2025-02-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2024.12.009

Seongha Rhee

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Humor production through breaches of a pre-allocated turn-taking organization in television talk shows involving interpreters

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Journal of Pragmatics Pub Date : 2025-02-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2025.01.008

Ryo Okazawa , Tianhao Zhang

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The pragmatics of encouragement: An inquiry into defaults vis-à-vis inferences

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Journal of Pragmatics Pub Date : 2025-02-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2025.01.013

Sadiya Shahid

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Representation of threatening speech in Late Modern English trials

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Journal of Pragmatics Pub Date : 2025-02-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2025.01.004

Theresa Neumaier

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“This apology doesn't seem sincere at all” (Meta)discourses around Will Smith's apology in English and Japanese YouTube comments

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Journal of Pragmatics Pub Date : 2025-02-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2025.01.003

Eugenia Diegoli

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