| Contributors | 9 |
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| Introduction | 15 |
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| Linguistic and cognitive aspects | 19 |
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| Hate: Saliency Features in Cross-cultural Semantics | 21 |
| The semantics and pragmatics of causal connectives: conceptual and procedural aspects of Modern Greek .iati and epeidi | 43 |
| Being cooperatively (im)polite: Grice’s model in the context of (im)politeness theories | 69 |
| Irony: making as if we pretend to echo | 99 |
| Pragmatic awareness: An index of linguistic competence | 119 |
| Context dynamism in classroom discourse | 159 |
| Socio-cultural aspects | 175 |
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| Simultaneous Speech in American English and Spanish Telephone Closings | 177 |
| A model of stance for the management of interpersonal relations: formality, power, distance and respect | 195 |
| The Russian social category svoj: a study in ethnopragmatics | 233 |
| Outlining and proposing the constructs of institutional framework and institutional practice for the study of intercultural communication | 253 |
| Can a lingua franca bridge the communication gap between corporations set in different cultures? | 277 |
| Variational Pragmatics in Chinese: Some insights from an empirical study | 297 |
| Discourse and stylistics | 329 |
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| The evaluative function of cohesive devices in three political texts | 331 |
| Relational work in anonymous, asynchronous communication: A study of (dis)affiliation in YouTube | 357 |
| Manipulation and pragmatics in political discourse | 381 |
| Intercultural business pragmatics: The case of the business letter of introduction | 409 |
| Zoo-pragmatics: performative acts among animals | 435 |
| Naming practices and negotiation of meaning: A corpus-based analysis of Spanish and English newspaper discourse | 453 |
| A compelling need to evaluate: social networking sites as tools for the expression of affect, judgment and appreciation | 473 |
| Strategies of discursive manipulation in the headlines of articles about Russia in the quality British press | 493 |
| Subject index | 507 |
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| Person index | 512 |
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