Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction: Pragmatics and corpus linguistics - a -- mutualistic entente -- At the interface between grammar and discourse - a -- corpus-based study of some pragmatic markers -- The subjectivity of basically in British English - -- a corpus-based study -- Variation in advanced oral interlanguage: The -- effect of proficiency on style choice -- The use(fulness) of corpus research -- incross-cultural pragmatics: Complaining in intercultural service -- encounters -- Hesitation markers among EFL learners: Pragmatic -- deficiency or difference? -- Evidentiality in discourse: A pragmatic and -- empirical account -- Multi-modal corpus pragmatics: The case of active -- listenership -- Discourse markers and the pragmatics of native and -- non-native teachers in a CLIL corpus -- A cross-linguistic study on the pragmatics of -- intonation in directives -- The discourse-grammar interface of regulatory -- teacher talk in the EFL classroom -- Backmatter