Abstract Language allows us to efficiently communicate about the things in the world around
us. Seemingly simple words like this and that are a cornerstone of our capability to refer, as …

L2 learners often develop grammatical competence in the absence of concomitant
pragmatic competence (Bardovi‐Harlig & Hartford, 1990, 1993). In an attempt to better …

Investigating Media Discourse explores spoken interactions in the media, drawing on
contemporary sources from the English speaking world including chat shows, radio phone …

A quantitative analysis of 1,083 L1 and L2 academic texts establishes that advanced
nonnative‐English‐speaking students in US universities employ excessively simple …

The Handbook of Research on Writing ventures to sum up inquiry over the last few decades
on what we know about writing and the many ways we know it: How do people write? How …

In this article we argue that there are very good reasons for developing discourse grammars
for L2 teaching and exemplify the criteria for moving from sentence‐based grammar to the …

This volume is intended for students who desire a practical introduction to the use of
language in daily and professional life. It may be used either as part of a course or as an aid …

Taking English as the example language, the article begins by presenting a Scale of
indexicality characterizing context-bound expression types, ranging from those signalling …

Ways of achieving interactional goals of interpersonal involvement, responsibility and
trustworthiness are fundamental to the political arena. The aim of this paper was to …

Shortlisted for the 2020 ESSE Book Award in English Language and Linguistics Orality in
Written Texts provides a methodologically and theoretically innovative study of change in …