Acknowledgements

Chapters in this book

1. 日本言語政策学会 / Japan Association for Language Policy. 言語政策 / Language Policy 10. 2014 i
2. Dedication v
3. Table of contents vii
4. Acknowledgements ix
5. Structures in discourse 1
6. Evaluation as a persuasive tactic in the 2012 Obama-Romney debates 18
7. How pragmatically (in)definite are you and one ? 36
8. Amazing  – The use of English in texting between a Finland-Swedish high school girl and friends 58
9. The uses of laughter in epideictic radio interviews 83
10. Temporality in reaction GIFs as multimodal virtual performatives 103
11. Emoji and illocutionarity 124
12. Revisiting adaptability 156
13. Vernacular voices in the public sphere 176
14. Contributor bios 202
15. Index 205