Reviews

Pragmatics for scholars and students
Betty J. Birner. 2013. Introduction to Pragmatics. Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell.

A Comprehensive Introduction to Conversation Analysis
Anthony J. Liddicoat. 2011. An Introduction to Conversation Analysis (2nd ed.). London/New York: Continuum.

An onomasiological approach to linguistic approximators in Romance languages
Wiltrud Mihatsch. 2010. „Wird man von hustensaft wie so ne art bekifft?” Approximationsmarker in romanischen Sprachen. Frankfurt am Main: Vittorio Klostermann.

A framework for the study of ideology in written language: How to lower ideology’s immunity to experience and observation
Jef Verschueren. 2012. Ideology in Language Use: Pragmatic Guidelines for Empirical Research. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Discourse analysis of politeness: from the perspective of contrastive and intercultural pragmatics
Ronald Geluykens. 2011. Politeness in Institutional Discourse: Face-Threatening Acts in Native and Nonnative English Business Letters. München: Lincom.

Alternative approaches to face analysis
Francesca Bargiela-Chiappini, Michael Haugh (eds.). 2009. Face, Communication and Social Interaction. Sheffield: Equinox.

Prosody in the context of an English language classroom: An interdisciplinary exploration
Jesús Romero-Trillo (ed.). 2012. Pragmatics and Prosody in English Language Teaching. Heidelberg: Springer.