The “impoliteness strategy”, a kind of parallel to the “politeness strategy”, has dominated
research for decades and is still current. However, the notion of a “strategy” is poorly …

The terms “post-truth” and “fake news” have become increasingly prevalent in public
discourse over the last year. This article explores the growing abundance of misinformation …

Cyberpragmatics is an analysis of Internet-mediated communication from the perspective of
cognitive pragmatics. It addresses a whole range of interactions that can be found on the …

Conversation is one of the most widespread uses of human language, but what is actually
happening when we interact this way? How is conversation structured? How does it …

This volume brings together two highly researched but also highly controversial concepts,
those of politeness and implicature. A theory of implicature as social action and …

This chapter focuses on genuine linguistic impoliteness, that is to say, linguistic material that
is associated with offensive effects. It discusses some of the most central concepts and …

Drawing on the literature on interaction in new media and on participation models
underlying (non) fictional multi-party media talk, this paper contributes to the burgeoning …

I would like to acknowledge the generous support of the Fulbright Specialist program, which
made it possible for me to spend 6 weeks of my research sabbatical in Hong Kong …

In this paper, we discuss the development of a multilingual annotated corpus of misogyny
and aggression in Indian English, Hindi, and Indian Bangla as part of a project on studying …

The aim of this paper is to examine how conflict begins, unfolds and ends in a massive, new
media polylogue, specifically, a YouTube polylogue. Extant research has looked into how …