Publisher: John Benjamins
http://www.benjamins.com/

Journal Title: Pragmatics & Cognition
Volume Number: 31
Issue Number: 2
Issue Date: 20250302

Subtitle: Special Issue: The Speech Act(ion) of Commenting in Social Media and Beyond

Main Text:

2024. v, 134 pp.

Table of Contents

Introduction: A speech-act(ion) perspective on commenting
Rita Finkbeiner & Robert Külpmann | pp. 287–293

Articles

Is commenting an expositive illocutionary act?
Marina Sbisà | pp. 294–317

Cause and comment: Two functions of non-finite causal constructions
Martin Konvička | pp. 318–338

Specified compliments in comments to politicians’ Facebook posts: Champion, loser, or both?
Pnina Shukrun-Nagar & Zohar Livnat | pp. 339–366

Sisterhood construction through commenting by Chinese women
Bin Wang | pp. 367–390

The functions of “I think” in TED Talks and their Turkish translations: A corpus-based study
Aytaç Çeltek | pp. 391–420

Linguistic Field(s): Pragmatics