Mental health is a matter of vital importance in today's society, with the news media reporting
on the topic on an almost daily basis. Despite this, the language associated with mental …

This paper explores imperfect communication in public broadcast media arising from a
mismatch between a speaker's communicative intention and the undesirable humorous …

This situated case study focuses on two international doctoral students' academic
socialization processes in conference presentation preparation sessions in an engineering …

The accessibility and interactivity of Twitter both facilitate athlete-fan interaction and
contribute to the time/space compression between sporting events and communication …

Media coverage of the Winter Olympic Games provides an invaluable opportunity for
athletes to promote themselves to a global audience that otherwise would not be reached …

This study explores occasions during which offendees make intuitive judgments about, or
offer reasons for, why they feel offended. In this respect, and by drawing on a corpus of …

This paper attempts to investigate Chinese celebrities' metapragmatic management of
rapport and impression, as indicated by their use of honesty markers such as shuoshihua …

The theme of this special issue is the analysis of language used to do and describe team
sport. This runs from the micro-analysis of interactional features found in intra-team talk and …

In 2010, the communication scientists Meân and Halone introduced their collection of
papers on “Situating Sport, Language, and Culture as a Site for Intellectual Discussion” in …

While this book is a book about language, it is simultaneously a book about what language
helps humans do and what human language patterns can reveal. The main role our …