Intercultural Pragmatics

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1. This journal follows a double-anonymized peer-review process.
   1. The (co)author’s previous publications should be quoted in the third person. We recommend using impersonal constructions (e.g. "It has been shown") or avoiding metadiscourse altogether and providing self-references in parentheses. In other words, each (co)author's name must not be suppressed in references (both in-text and in the bib liography), rather, it should be provided as it would be in a published paper with no identification (e.g. "in my previous work" should not be used). Please avoid citing manuscripts under preparation. 
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2. Please provide a separate title page. 
   1. The title page must comprise six components
      1. the author’s name, 
      2. affiliation(s), 
      3. ORCID identifier (provided as a URL),
      4. email,
      5. address, as well as
      6. a short bio note.

       

   2. In t he case of c o-authored papers:
   • the requirement above applies to all
   • co-authors should be listed on the title page in the order in which they are added in the relevant submission step in ScholarOne and in which they are to appear on the published paper. 
   • the first author's OrcID (in addition to the corresponding author's) must be provided in the relevant submission step in ScholarOne.

    

   3. The title page should also include the acknowledgments and funding information, if applicable.

    

   None of this information identifying any (co)author should be present in the anonymized manuscript. The exception is the (co-)author's surname featuring only in references cited in the third person (see point 1 above).

    

    

   3. Please prepare an abstract, in line with these criteria:
   4. 150–250 words, 
   5. a single, self-contained paragraph,
   6. without any references.
   7. The abstract should follow the paper's title in the manuscript file.

4. Please prepare a list of 4–6 keywords. These must serve indexing purposes and will help place your work in the landscape of previous research in pragmatics. Please use existing notions representing the topic and methodology of your paper. Please avoid obscure acronyms, complex phrases (with "of" or "and"), as well as words that are not yet accepted linguistic terms.

5. Authors may also attach a cover letter addressed to the handling editor, which will not be shared with reviewers.

6. You will also be able to attach figures and supplementary files. However, figures and tables should also be placed in the body of the manuscript.

1. Please prepare a list of 2–4 potential reviewers in line with COPE guidelines (i.e. no current or recent [within the past five years]: co-authors, collaborators or grant holders, colleagues employed at the same institution, supervisors/students, mentors/mentees, or scholars already familiar with a non-anonymized paper or the study it reports). You may also list a few reviewer candidates you would prefer not to be considered. Please note that reviewer selection is at the discretion of the handling editor.

Further instructions and submission information

• Manuscripts must be written in clear and concise English.
• Please see the De Gruyter Mouton journal style sheet for further information regarding the proper formatting of your manuscript.
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• For specific inquiries, please send an email to the Editor-in-Chief at InPra@degruyterbrill.com.

Special Issue proposals

Intercultural Pragmatics continues the tradition of Special Issues focused on topics of current interest in pragmatics. Prospective editors of special issues are i nvited to submit their proposals to the Editor-in-Chief (InPra@degruyterbrill.com). The proposals should include:

1. Special Issue title
2. Editors (names, affiliations, and bio notes)
3. Brief description/rationale (300–500 words)
4. Table of contents (author names, affiliations, bio notes of up to 100 words, abstracts of 150–250words with no references)
5. The due date for the delivery of manuscripts for review

Each Special Issue proposal should include 5–8 papers.

Ethical considerations

Kindly note that we can consider proposals that include:

• a maximum of one paper (co)authored by each (co-)Guest Editor (excluding the Special Issue Introduction, which provides an overview of the relevant topic and briefly introduces the submissions)
• a maximum of one paper from one (co)author
• a maximum of two (co)authors affiliated with one institution
• a maximum of three papers from ( co)aut hors based in one country 

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We look forward to receiving your manuscript!

Editor-in-Chief
Prof. Marta Dynel
University of Łódź; Vilnius Gediminas Technical University (Poland)
InPra@degruyterbrill.com

Founding Editor
Prof. István Kecskés † 

Associate Editors

Monika Kirner-Ludwig, University of Innsbruck (Austria)
Wei Ren, Beihang University (China) 

Editorial Board

Jannis Androutsopoulos, University of Hamburg (Germany)
Sociopragmatics, Interactional pragmatics, Internet pragmatics.

Jo Angouri, University of Warwick (UK)

Valentina Bambini, University School for Advanced Studies IUSS Pavia (Italy)
Experimental pragmatics, Developmental pragmatics, Clinical pragmatics.

Kathleen Bardovi-Harlig, Indiana University (USA)
L2 pragmatics, Acquisitional pragmatics, Interlanguage pragmatics.

Anne Barron, Leuphana University of Lüneburg (Germany)
Variational pragmatics, Intercultural pragmatics, L2 pragmatics.

Monika Bednarek, The University of Sydney (Australia)
Corpus pragmatics, Discourse Pragmatics.

Pilar G. Blitvich, University of North Carolina at Charlotte (USA)
Interactional pragmatics, Theoretical pragmatics, Intercultural pragmatics.

Francesca Marina Bosco, University of Turin (Italy)
Cognitive pragmatics, Experimental pragmatics, Developmental pragmatics.

Alessandro Capone, University of Messina (Italy)
Philosophical pragmatics.

Asta Cekaite, Linköping University (Sweden)
Developmental pragmatics, Interactional pragmatics, Intercultural pragmatics.

Louise Cummings, York St John University (UK)
Clinical pragmatics, Cognitive pragmatics.

Arnulf Deppermann, Leibniz Institute for the German Language (Germany)
Interactional pragmatics, Multimodal pragmatics.

Anna de Fina, Georgetown University (USA)
Interactional pragmatics.

Kerstin Fischer, University of Southern Denmark (Denmark)
Interactional pragmatics, Technology pragmatics, Experimental pragmatics.

Cliff Goddard, Griffith University (Australia)
Intercultural pragmatics, Ethnopragmatics, Metapragmatics.

Pentti Haddington, University of Oulu (Finland)
Interactional pragmatics, Multimodal pragmatics.

Michael Haugh, University of Queensland (Australia)
Interactional pragmatics, Intercultural pragmatics.

Petra Hendriks, Universityo f Groningen (the Netherlands)
Developmental pragmatics, Experimental pragmatics, Clinical pragmatics.

Susan Herring, Indiana University (USA)
Discourse pragmatics, Interactional pragmatics, Internet pragmatics.

Thomas Holtgraves, Ball State University (USA)
Experimental pragmatics, Cognitive pragmatics, Interactional pragmatics.

Laurence Horn, Yale University (USA)
Theoretical pragmatics, Philosophical pragmatics, Lexical pragmatics.

Juliane House, University of Hamburg (Germany),  Hellenic American University (USA),   ELTE Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics (Hungary)
Intercultural Pragmatics, Contrastive Pragmatics.

Katarzyna Jaszczołt, University of Cambridge (UK)
Theoretical pragmatics, Post-Gricean pragmatics, Philosophical pragmatics.

Andreas H. Jucker, University of Zurich (Switzerland)
Historical pragmatics, Interactional pragmatics, and Pragmatics of fiction.

Daniel Kadar, Dalian University of Foreign Languages (China), ELTE Research Centre for Linguistics (Hungary), University of Maribor (Slovenia)
Intercultural pragmatics, Contrastive pragmatics.

Napoleon Katsos, University of Cambridge (UK)
Experimental pragmatics, Developmental pragmatics, Cognitive pragmatics.

Andrew Kehler, University of California, San Diego (USA)
Theoretical pragmatics, Experimental pragmatics, Computational pragmatics.

Miriam Locher, University of Basel (Switzerland)
Interpersonal pragmatics, Pragmatics of fiction, Internet pragmatics.

Fabrizio Macagno, University of Lisbon (Portugal)
Intercultural pragmatics, Philosophical pragmatics.

Anna Mauranen, University of Helsinki (Finland) 
Intercultural pragmatics, Interactional pragmatics, Cognitive pragmatics.

Ira Noveck, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (France)
Experimental pragmatics, Developmental pragmatics, Theoretical pragmatics.

Stephanie Schnurr, University of Warwick (UK)
Interactional pragmatics, Intercultural pragmatics.

Maria Sifianou, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (Greece)
Intercultural pragmatics, Discursive pragmatics, Sociopragmatics.

Helen Spencer-Oatey, University of Warwick (UK)

Gerard Steen, University of Amsterdam (the Netherlands)
Theoretical pragmatics, Interactional pragmatics, Cognitive pragmatics.

Elizabeth Stokoe, London School of Economics and Political Science (UK)

Naoko Taguchi, Northern Arizona University (USA)
L2 pragmatics, Experim ental pra gmatics, Intercultural pragmatics.

Marina Terkourafi, Leiden University (the Netherlands)
Interactional pragmatics, Philosophical pragmatics, Experimental pragmatics.

Camilla Vásquez, University of South Florida (USA)
Interactional pragmatics, Discourse pragmatics, Internet pragmatics.

Jef Verschueren, University of Antwerp (Belgium)
Theoretical pragmatics, Intercultural pragmatics.

Deirdre Wilson, University of London (UK)
Theoretical pragmatics, Cognitive pragmatics, Philosophical Pragmatics.

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