Frontmatter -- Content -- Contributors -- Introduction -- Linguistic and cognitive aspects -- Hate: Saliency Features in Cross-cultural Semantics / / Baider, Fabienne -- The semantics and pragmatics of causal connectives: conceptual and procedural aspects of Modern Greek ?iati and epei?i /Bardzokas, Valandis -- Being cooperatively (im)polite: Grice's model in the context of (im)politeness theories /Dynel, Marta -- Irony: making as if we pretend to echo /Garmendia, Joana -- Pragmatic awareness: An index of linguistic competence /Ifantidou, Elly -- Context dynamism in classroom discourse /Maguire, Laura / Romero-Trillo, Jesús -- Socio-cultural aspects -- Simultaneous Speech in American English and Spanish Telephone Closings /Fernández-Amaya, Lucía -- A model of stance for the management of interpersonal relations: formality, power, distance and respect /Formentelli, Maicol -- The Russian social category svoj: a study in ethnopragmatics /Gladkova, Anna -- Outlining and proposing the constructs of institutional framework and institutional practice for the study of intercultural communication /Piñango, Marinelly -- Can a lingua franca bridge the communication gap between corporations set in different cultures /Tréguer-Felten, Geneviève -- Variational Pragmatics in Chinese: Some insights from an empirical study /Ren, Wei / Lin, Chih-Ying / Woodfield, Helen -- Discourse and stylistics -- The evaluative function of cohesive devices in three political texts /Belén Cabrejas Peñuelas, Ana / Díez Prados, Mercedes -- Relational work in anonymous, asynchronous communication: A study of (dis)affiliation in YouTube /Garcés-Conejos Blitvich, Pilar / Lorenzo-Dus, Nuria / Bou-Franch, Patricia -- Manipulation and pragmatics in political discourse /Grzywna, Agnieszka -- Intercultural business pragmatics: The case of the business letter of introduction /Guillén-Nieto, Victoria -- Zoo-pragmatics: performative acts among animals /Mandoki, Katya -- Naming practices and negotiation of meaning: A corpus-based analysis of Spanish and English newspaper discourse /Santaemilia Ruiz, José / Maruenda Bataller, Sergio -- A compelling need to evaluate: social networking sites as tools for the expression of affect, judgment and appreciation /Santamaría-García, Carmen -- Strategies of discursive manipulation in the headlines of articles about Russia in the quality British press /Smirnova, Alla -- Subject index -- Person index
