1. FIRST-ORDER POLITENESS IN RAPPROCHEMENT AND DISTANCING CULTURES: UNDERSTANDINGS AND USES OF POLITENESS BY SPANISH NATIVE SPEAKERS FROM SPAIN AND SPANISH NONNATIVE SPEAKERS FROM THE U.S..
María Jesús Barros García and Marina Terkourafi
3. TEXT AND CONTEXTUAL INFORMATION RETRIEVAL: A RELEVANCE-THEORETIC APPROACH TO COHESION.
Patricia Kolaiti
4. THE ALTERNATION OF DESU/-MASU WITH PLAIN FORM SPEECH AND THE CONSTITUTION OF SOCIAL CLASS IN JAPANESE HIGH SCHOOL ENGLISH LESSONS.
Sarah S. Meacham
5. THE ROLE OF PRAGMATIC FUNCTION IN THE GRAMMATICALIZATION OF ENGLISH GENERAL EXTENDERS.
Maryann Overstreet
6. THE DISCURSIVE MANAGEMENT OF IDENTITY IN INTERVIEWS WITH FEMALE FORMER COLONIALS OF THE BELGIAN CONGO: SCRUTINIZING THE ROLE OF THE INTERVIEWER.
Dorien Van De Mieroop and Jonathan Clifton
7. LAUGHING WHEN NOTHING’S FUNNY: THE PRAGMATIC USE OF COPING LAUGHTER IN THE NEGOTIATION OF CONVERSATIONAL DISAGREEMENT.
Shawn Warner-Garcia