Frontmatter -- Content -- Contributors -- Introduction -- Linguistic and cognitive aspects -- Hate: Saliency Features in Cross-cultural Semantics -- The semantics and pragmatics of causal connectives: conceptual and procedural aspects of Modern Greek γiati and epeiδi -- Being cooperatively (im)polite: Grice's model in the context of (im)politeness theories -- Irony: making as if we pretend to echo -- Pragmatic awareness: An index of linguistic competence -- Context dynamism in classroom discourse -- Socio-cultural aspects -- Simultaneous Speech in American English and Spanish Telephone Closings -- A model of stance for the management of interpersonal relations: formality, power, distance and respect -- The Russian social category svoj: a study in ethnopragmatics -- Outlining and proposing the constructs of institutional framework and institutional practice for the study of intercultural communication -- Can a lingua franca bridge the communication gap between corporations set in different cultures -- Variational Pragmatics in Chinese: Some insights from an empirical study -- Discourse and stylistics -- The evaluative function of cohesive devices in three political texts -- Relational work in anonymous, asynchronous communication: A study of (dis)affiliation in YouTube -- Manipulation and pragmatics in political discourse -- Intercultural business pragmatics: The case of the business letter of introduction -- Zoo-pragmatics: performative acts among animals -- Naming practices and negotiation of meaning: A corpus-based analysis of Spanish and English newspaper discourse -- A compelling need to evaluate: social networking sites as tools for the expression of affect, judgment and appreciation -- Strategies of discursive manipulation in the headlines of articles about Russia in the quality British press -- Subject index -- Person index