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The generic use of the 1st-person singular ich ‘I’ in German oncological consultations: Managing demonstrated and anticipated trouble 第一人称单数“我”在德国肿瘤会诊中的通用用法：管理已证明的和预期的麻烦

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Journal of Pragmatics Pub Date : 2026-01-01 Epub Date: 2025-12-02 DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2025.10.014

Dominic Hendricks

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The three “waves” of compliment and compliment response research 恭维的三次“浪潮”与恭维反应研究

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Journal of Pragmatics Pub Date : 2026-01-01 Epub Date: 2025-12-05 DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2025.11.008

Carmen Maíz-Arévalo

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Pragmatics of irony in performance: Politeness, offense, and audience reception in Chinese stand-up comedy 表演中的反讽语用：中国单口喜剧中的礼貌、冒犯与观众接受

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Journal of Pragmatics Pub Date : 2026-01-01 Epub Date: 2025-12-28 DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2025.12.003

Liwei Yang

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Refutation in presidential debate: Metadiscourse and co-occurring gestures 总统辩论中的反驳：元话语与共现姿态

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Journal of Pragmatics Pub Date : 2026-01-01 Epub Date: 2025-12-17 DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2025.11.010

Chung-Chen Chen, Yen-Liang (Eric) Lin

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Swearing across times: A study of the Spanish dubbing of swearwords in the 1990s and the 2020s 跨越时代的咒骂：对20世纪90年代和20世纪20年代西班牙语咒骂配音的研究

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Journal of Pragmatics Pub Date : 2026-01-01 Epub Date: 2025-12-23 DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2025.12.002

Roberto A. Valdeón

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Journal of Pragmatics Pub Date : 2025-12-04 DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2025.11.009

Nele Põldvere

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From a question word to a discourse marker: The particle neli in Macedonian 从疑问词到语篇标记词：马其顿语中的助词neli

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Journal of Pragmatics Pub Date : 2025-12-01 Epub Date: 2025-11-12 DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2025.10.012

Liljana Mitkovska, Eleni Bužarovska

{"title":"From a question word to a discourse marker: The particle neli in Macedonian","authors":"Liljana Mitkovska, Eleni Bužarovska","doi":"10.1016/j.pragma.2025.10.012","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.pragma.2025.10.012","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The paper presents the results of the research on the use of the particle <em>neli</em> in spoken Macedonian. The aim is to examine the semantic and pragmatic variation of <em>neli</em> in sentences excerpted from telephone conversations. The main assumption is that <em>neli</em> is polysemous, and its meaning depends on the interaction between the communicative purpose of the sentence with <em>neli</em> and the syntactic position of the particle. Initial results show that <em>neli</em> is used both as an interrogative particle and as a discourse marker. When used as an interrogative particle in initial position, <em>neli</em> introduces biased questions that anticipate an affirmative response; in final position it seeks confirmation of the preceding statement. In medial position within declarative sentences, it functions at a discourse level where it acquires procedural and phatic meanings. Across its various functions, <em>neli</em> facilitates cooperative communication between interlocutors. Drawing on the Discourse Grammar framework, its extension from sentence-level to discourse-level usage is attributed to cooptation. Given that pragmatic markers rarely evolve from question particles, the polyfunctionality of <em>neli</em> provides a noteworthy typological contribution.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":16899,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Pragmatics","volume":"250 ","pages":"Pages 116-127"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2025-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145517671","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Responding to new information with negative discourse particles nein/nee/nö in German talk-in-interaction 德语对话中的否定语篇助词nein/nee/nö对新信息的响应

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Journal of Pragmatics Pub Date : 2025-12-01 Epub Date: 2025-11-21 DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2025.10.008

Alexandra Gubina , Emma Betz

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Reported speech in dementia: Pragmatic patterns in Spanish and Galician natural discourse 痴呆症患者的报告言语：西班牙语和加利西亚语自然语篇的语用模式

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Journal of Pragmatics Pub Date : 2025-12-01 Epub Date: 2025-11-11 DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2025.10.011

David Navarro-Ciurana , Ana Varela Suárez

{"title":"Reported speech in dementia: Pragmatic patterns in Spanish and Galician natural discourse","authors":"David Navarro-Ciurana , Ana Varela Suárez","doi":"10.1016/j.pragma.2025.10.011","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.pragma.2025.10.011","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Reported speech has been studied in both children and healthy adults. However, it remains a pending issue in the field of Clinical Pragmatics. Regarding adults with dementia, previous studies pointed out that reported speech in individuals with dementia appears almost exclusively as direct speech, while indirect speech arises only occasionally in the form of metaphors or irony.</div><div>This study has the following objectives: (i) to observe and begin to characterize how the ability to efficiently use reported speech in any type of discourse can deteriorate as cognitive decline progresses in dementia; (ii) to compare whether reported speech patterns vary when people with dementia construct narratives across different genres; and (iii) to examine whether reported speech is employed in dementia discourse as a compensatory strategy to avoid trouble sources. To this end, an oral corpus of 27 video recordings was compiled, featuring individuals at different stages of the disease.</div><div>The results indicate a systematic decline in both the frequency and structural complexity of RS. Direct speech is the most common form of RS across all stages. Cognitive impairment leads to a more echoic discourse and an increased number of pronouns with unclear referents; in addition, RS representations shift from being diverse to involving only participants present in the communicative context of the task. Discourse genre affects the rate of RS production, which appears more frequently in naturalistic tasks.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":16899,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Pragmatics","volume":"250 ","pages":"Pages 99-115"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2025-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145517672","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Demonstratives as utterance-final particles in Vietnamese conversation 指示词在越南语会话中的词尾助词作用

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Journal of Pragmatics Pub Date : 2025-12-01 Epub Date: 2025-10-31 DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2025.08.005

Mayumi Adachi

{"title":"Demonstratives as utterance-final particles in Vietnamese conversation","authors":"Mayumi Adachi","doi":"10.1016/j.pragma.2025.08.005","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.pragma.2025.08.005","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>It is commonly supposed that Vietnamese has a three-term system of demonstratives with representative forms such as <em>đây</em>, <em>đấy</em>, and <em>kia</em>. These demonstratives are used as utterance-final particles (UFPs) with various pragmatic meanings. While demonstratives have basic indicating functions, their usage as UFPs is related to the subjective and intersubjective (or interpersonal) stance of the speaker. This study examines how some of these particles are used to encode epistemic stances in family dinner conversations. Speakers frequently use medial demonstratives <em>đấy</em> and <em>ấy</em> as well as distal demonstrative <em>kia</em> to indicate the status of knowledge of the speaker and hearer. These particles are also used as interactional markers; for instance, <em>đấy</em> can be used as a positive politeness marker; <em>ấy</em> exhibits solidarity; and <em>kia</em> expresses counter-expectation. The use of demonstratives as interactional particles has also been observed in the Kra-Dai and Austronesian languages. This study of Vietnamese, a Mon-Khmer language, provides further opportunities to cross-linguistically identify potential generalizations of the development of demonstratives as discourse particles.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":16899,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Pragmatics","volume":"250 ","pages":"Pages 66-84"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2025-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145419763","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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