This Element discusses the challenges and opportunities that different types of corpora offer
for the study of pragmatic phenomena. The focus lies on a hands-on approach to methods …

This Element addresses translation issues within an interpersonal pragmatics frame. The
aims of this Element are twofold: first, we survey the current state of the field of pragmatics in …

This study qualitatively examines self-praise in naturally-occurring Japanese conversations
between friends. It analyses forms of self-praise, including their context dependency …

This special issue on the pragmatics of translation contains eight papers on translation
outcomes and processes and highlights a pragmatic angle of understanding the transfer of …

The paper aims to give a comprehensive account of translation strategies for English-
Ukrainian interpretation of Joseph R. Biden's speech in Poland. Political speeches serve as …

This study examined the accuracy of place name translation during remote simultaneous
interpreting (RSI) when interpreters were required to use a different variant of their native …

As an act of self-disclosure, the speech act of self-praise may be perceived as problematic or
inappropriate due to societal expectations, such as politeness preferences. Despite recent …

Bragging is the act of uttering statements that are likely to be positively viewed by others and
it is extensively employed in human communication with the aim to build a positive self …

Using the methodology of Grounded Theory, this study aims to identify and analyze the
perceptions and functions of self-denigration in dissertation defenses. The data comprises …

In this study, we examined the use of compliments, self-praise, and self-denigration, as
exchanged among nonnative English users. This was part of participation in an online cross …