Service encounters are ubiquitous in social interaction. We buy food and everyday items in
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Providing an ideal introduction to historical pragmatics, this guide gives students a solid
grounding in historical pragmatics and teaches the methodology needed to analyse …

Variationist sociolinguistics emphasises the importance of analysing language in its social
context and treats language use as the central object of study. The systematic focus on …

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This paper functions as the introduction to the special issue on 'relational work in Facebook
and discussion boards'. We position our research endeavors within interpersonal …

There is little pragmatic research on the pluricentric nature of the Arabic language. The
current study highlights this nature by adopting a variational pragmatic approach to examine …

Pragmatics & Beyond New Series is a continuation of Pragmatics & Beyond and its
Companion Series. The series provides a forum for scholars in any area of Pragmatics. It …

This paper provides an outline of the changes in linguistics that gave rise to historical
pragmatics in the 1990s and that have shaped its development over the twenty years of its …

With the “discursive turn” has come a distrust–a complete rejection by some–of theories that
seek deeper reasons for surface phenomena. Rong Chen argues that this distrust, with its …