This book offers a unique model for understanding the cognitive underpinnings, interactions
and discursive effects of our evolving use of smartphones in everyday app-mediated …

Self-praise is a speech act that gives credit to the speaker for some attribute or possession
that is positively valued by the speaker and the potential audience. This exploratory study …

Internet communication has evolved a lot since it first became popular in the early nineties of
the last century. Pragmatics has also evolved and has tried to come to terms with the non …

Self-praise involves disclosing positive content about oneself, and such disclosures can be
treated as self-elevating acts. This study adds to the growing literature on self-praise …

Studies on self-praise have focused on ordinary people's self-praise strategies both in oral
communication and on social media. However, little research has examined how celebrities …

Packed with contemporary examples from the business world, this is an exciting and
engaging text which explains how language works in business, how to analyse it and how to …

Self-praise has traditionally been interpreted as a potentially face threatening act, which
infringes the 'Modesty Maxim'proposed by Leech. Certain discourse genres, however, like …

This article investigates the use of self-praise in an online community of pick-up artists
(PUAs). The male community of practice engages in speed seduction of women, drawing on …

The present study sought to investigate factors influencing Iranian EFL teachers' adoption of
Web 2.0 technologies in light of the unified theory of acceptance and use of technology …

Our research is situated in the field of the pragmatics of fiction (Jucker and Locher, 2017;
Messerli, 2017), and explores a website that makes Asian drama series and movies …