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Lodz Papers in Pragmatics

Editors-in-Chief: Paul Chilton and Monika Tosik
Founded by: Piotr Cap

Language: English

First published: June 20, 2012

Publication Frequency: 2 issues per year

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Lodz Papers in Pragmatics (LPP) is an international journal committed to publishing excellent theoretical and empirical research in the area of pragmatics and related disciplines focused on human communication, both in everyday interactions and in the media, whether spoken or written, and whether institutional or interpersonal. LPP　editors understand linguistic pragmatics as research area which focuses on the contextual aspects of meaning, which invites interdisciplinary perspective on linguistic data and intersects traditional modules, such as phonetics, phonology, syntax, or text linguistics and discourse analysis.

LPP publishes original peer-reviewed papers and review articles. It aims to provide a comprehensive perspective on today’s pragmatics, integrating diverse research from all over the world and assisting in further definition of the field. Affiliated with University of Lodz, at the crossroads between Eastern and Western Europe, the Slavic and the Anglo-Saxon tradition, LPP is uniquely suited to not only represent current research in linguistic pragmatics, but also provoke confrontation and provide a forum for discussion for researchers rooted in different schools, distant both in theory and geographic space, from Europe and beyond.

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Linguistic pragmatics
Human communication
Everyday interactions
Media
Contextual aspects of meaning
Phonetics
Phonology
Syntax
Text linguistics
Discourse analysis

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Original research articles, review articles

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Bridging between theoretical and empirical research in the area of pragmatics
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Interdisciplinary outlook on linguistic pragmatics
Different schools – from Europe and beyond
Broad topics covered by the best researchers

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Framing the Russo-Ukrainian war: Western media representations in year two of the full-scale invasion

October 3, 2025

Angela Kamyanets

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This study explores discourses about the Russo-Ukrainian war as presented in American and British opinion articles featured in the Ukrainian press between March and October 2023. This period was marked by intense debate in Western media concerning Ukraine’s counter-offensive which commenced in early June 2023. Using critical discourse analysis, the research deconstructs the discourses, examining their key elements such as representations defining the nature of the war and its opposing sides, as well as representations of specific aspects of the war that are framed contentiously across the research corpus. These aspects include Ukraine’s deep strikes into Russia, the war’s costs for Russia, territorial de-occupation, and potential pathways to peace. The analysis reveals three distinct discourses: the first portrays the war as an attack on the international order, an imperialist war, and a genocidal war; the second frames it as an unwinnable territorial conflict; and the third defines it as Putin’s war against the West. These discourses resonate with previous findings from before the full-scale invasion in February 2022, while also showing a certain evolution in their framing.
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Exploring linguistic and cognitive-communicative aspects of vernacular toponyms: a comparative study of English and Kazakh languages

September 25, 2025

Saltanat Davletova, Aigul Bizhkenova

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The purpose of this study is to investigate the vernacular toponymy of Kazakhstan and the United Kingdom through analysis of their linguistic (phonetic, word-formation, lexical-semantic) and cognitive-communicative features. By considering the features of vernacular content, phonetic, word-formation, lexical, cognitive, and communicative resources in the Kazakh and English languages are compared. It was determined that the toponyms of Great Britain retained the phonetic nature of the English language and loanwords from French and other languages are rarely used. The examination of word-formation resources shows that in the toponyms of Great Britain, the word-formation elements of the English language were most often used; in the Kazakh toponyms, both Kazakh and Russian word-formation resources were used. In lexical-semantic terms, both Kazakh and English languages had approximately the same indicators. Lexical and semantic groups, such as lexemes associated with spatial relations, the association of people on national, social, and gender grounds, historical names, and people’s employment, are identified. Nominations pertaining to sarcastic and metaphorical linkages were also observed from a communicative and cognitive perspective. The statistics were given in tables. This study can be used to compare toponyms in different structural languages and examine the lexical-semantic, linguistic, and cultural nature of toponyms.
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“Neuronal ideology”: grammatical metaphor and the naturalisation of neoliberal subjectivities in neurobiological research papers

August 12, 2025

Alexander Hope

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This paper analyses the potential neoliberal biases found in one of the most influential theories of consciousness in contemporary neuroscience, the Global Neuronal Workspace hypothesis (GNW). Philosopher Catherine Malabou argues that there is a mirroring between managerial discourse and that of contemporary neurobiology. Surprisingly, there is scant linguistic work on the ideological form of neurobiological discourse. In response, I empirically evaluate a specific aspect of Malabou’s claim by using Michael Halliday’s concept of grammatical metaphor to interrogate the particular form of subjectivity implied by the rhetorical and lexicogrammatical construction of the GNW as a concept. This analysis shows that a particular form of grammatical metaphor, dubbed “circumstantial grammatical metaphor” is key to the construction of the GNW and blurs the distinction between the model and the materiality it models. These grammatical metaphors also appear to be involved in the production of broader conceptual metaphors. The results indicate there is evidence for correlations with what Luc Boltanski and Eve Chiapello call “the new spirit of capitalism” helping naturalise a reduced form of subjectivity.
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Speech acts in herders-farmers’ conflict in Nigerian newspaper headlines

August 12, 2025

Joshua Sunday Ayantayo, Solomon Oluwole Oyetade

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The present study examines the patterns of speech act in the herdsmen-farmers conflict (HFC) news headlines and interrogates the choice of words and context of the patterns of speech act in the headlines. The study adopts Searle, John. 1969. Speech Acts: An Essay in the Philosophy of Language. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Approach to speech act considering its relevance to the study of news headlines. Six Nigerian newspapers that cover a period between March 2019 and March 2021 were selected. Hundred headlines were sampled from each of the selected newspapers making a total of 600 headlines. Twenty-five were purposively selected for analysis. Four illocutionary acts were identified in the newspapers’ headlines, namely, assertive, commissive, directive, and declarative. The study submits that the headlines are capable of spiraling the conflict, therefore, newspaper writers should use headlines that can help to curb the conflict and readers must also go beyond the headlines because of their sensationalism.
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Gender stereotypes and communication styles: a case study of compliments on Facebook in Jordan

January 1, 2000

Ayah Alnajjar, Aseel Zibin

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This paper examines the influence of gender stereotypes on communication styles, specifically investigating how the gender of Jordanians may affect their selection of compliments on Facebook. The analysis is based on a corpus of 200 compliments and 200 compliment responses collected from the platform. The researchers utilized the model developed by Eslami et al. (2019. Online compliments of Iranian Facebook users. In From speech acts to lay understandings of politeness: Multilingual and multicultural perspectives , 68–92) for data analysis. A mixed-method approach was employed to analyze the data both quantitatively and qualitatively. The results revealed that mixed compliments, which combine verbal and non-verbal elements, were the most frequently used (66 %), followed by verbal compliments (30 %) and non-verbal compliments (4 %). Among both verbal and mixed compliments, explicit compliments emerged as the most prevalent type (73 %). Gender differences were observed in lexical choices and the use of modifiers. Males tended to favor expressions associated with masculinity and social authority, while females used more emotionally driven and aesthetically focused language. These findings suggest that online platforms, such as Facebook, both reflect and reinforce traditional gender roles within the Jordanian society. This analysis could lead to a better understanding of how gender and different cultural backgrounds shape communication styles on social media platforms.
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Question is the source of knowledge: question-asking executed by patients during online medical consultation

January 1, 2000

Xiaojiang Wang, Yansheng Mao

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Although there is a wealth of studies on question-asking during clinical settings, scant attention has been paid to patient’s practice of question-asking, especially during Online Medical Consultation (OMC). This study thus probes into the forms, topics, and functions of Chinese e-patient’s question-asking during OMCs. A dataset of 267 examples of e-patient’s question-asking was collected from 44 doctor-patient interactions from Chunyu Doctor. Conventional form (Polar question, Wh-question, Alternative question) and non-conventional form (Sentential fragment, Statement, Response token) were identified and analyzed. Medical questions and General questions were two topics the question-asking concerns. Functionally, e-patient’s question-asking serves as unknown information-seeking, doubted information-verifying, corresponding action-requesting, lay expertise-displaying, and shared decision-making. Furthermore, e-patient’s question-asking is discussed as a deliberate balance between proactive participation and respect for doctor’s superior epistemic access and authorized status.
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Teaching and testing second language pragmatics and interaction: a practical guide, Carsten Roever. Routledge, New York (2022)

January 1, 2000

Fenghua Zhang

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Written by Carsten Roever, Teaching and Testing Second Language Pragmatics and Interaction: A Practical Guide is primarily targeted at second language (L2) teachers, curriculum designers, and test makers who aim to teach and test pragmatic and interactional competence in L2 classrooms. Pragmatic competence is about how the contextual and situational variables affect the interaction. This study examines linguistic appropriacy in communicative contexts. Neglecting this may lead to communicative breakdowns, wherein interlocutors risk being perceived as socially inappropriate or pragmatically incompetent. However, pragmatic and interactional competence have been underemphasized in L2 teaching and testing. The dearth of pragmatics in L2 textbooks and curricula makes this pedagogical guide both urgent and significant. This volume intends to remedy the situation by systemically offering empirically-grounded practical tools and research-based effective techniques for L2 educators and assessment specialists. There are altogether seven chapters in this monograph. They are, in sequence: (1) introduction; (2) pragmatic competence and interactional competence; (3) how to make teaching materials and tests for pragmatics; (4) pragmatics and curriculum; (5) teaching pragmatics; (6) testing pragmatics; and (7) outlook: the future of teaching and testing of L2 pragmatics.

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Lodz Papers in Pragmatics publishes special and thematic issues focussed on important and emerging topics in the field of study. The journal has established a rigorous process to ensure that any special issue manuscripts follow the same high-quality standards and peer review processes as regular manuscripts. For further information on the journal’s peer review policy please see the "Instructions for Authors".

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Editors-in-Chief
Paul Chilton, Lancaster University, University of Warwick, UK
Monika Tosik, University of Lodz, Poland

LPP editorial contact address:
Department of Pragmatics
University of Lodz
Pomorska 171/173
90-236, Łódź
Poland
e-mail: LPP@degruyter.com; monika.kopytowska@uni.lodz.pl

Founding Editor
Piotr Cap, University of Lodz, Poland

Review Editor
Svetlana Kurteš, University of Madeira, Portugal

Editorial Advisory Board
Johannes Angermuller, Open University, UK
Derek Bousfield, University of Central Lancashire, UK
Robyn Carston, University College London, UK
Jonathan Charteris-Black, University of West of England, UK
Piotr P. Chruszczewski, University of Wrocław, Poland
Alan Cienki, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Seana Coulson, University of California, San Diego, USA
Jonathan Culpepper, Lancaster University, UK
Louise Cummings, Nottingham Trent University, UK
Zohreh R. Eslami, Texas A&M University, USA
Małgorzata Fabiszak, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland
Anita Fetzer, University of Augsburg, Germany
Charles J. Forceville, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
Bruce Fraser, Boston University, USA
Raymond W. Gibbs, Jr., University of California, Santa Cruz, USA
Rachel Giora, Tel Aviv University, Israel
Cheryl Glenn, Pennsylvania State University, USA
Christopher Hart, Lancaster University, UK
Bob Hodge, University of Western Sydney, Australia
Sachiko Ide, Japan Women’s University, Tokyo, Japan
Cornelia Ilie, Strömstad Academy, Sweden
Katarzyna M. Jaszczolt, University of Cambridge, UK
Adam Jaworski, University of Hong Kong, China
Andreas H. Jucker, University of Zurich, Switzerland
Henryk Kardela, Maria Curie-Sklodowska University, Lublin, Poland
Istvan Kecskes, State University of New York, USA
Dennis Kurzon, University of Haifa, Israel
Michiel Leezenberg, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
Barbara Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk, State University of Applied Sciences in Konin, Poland
Michael Meeuwis, University of Gent, Belgium
Gabriela Missikova, Constantine the Philosopher University, Slovakia
John Newman, University of Alberta, Canada
Neal R. Norrick, Saarland University; Germany
Wiaczesław Nowikow, University of Lodz, Poland
Manuel Padilla Cruz, University of Seville, Spain
Louis de Saussure, University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland
Marina Sbisà, University of Trieste, Italy
Gunter Senft, Max-Planck-Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, Netherlands
Piotr Stalmaszczyk, University of Lodz, Poland
Marina Terkourafi, Leiden University, Netherlands
Ken P. Turner, University of Brighton, UK
Jef Verschueren, University of Antwerp, Belgium
Deirdre Wilson, University College London, UK
Ruth Wodak, Lancaster University, UK

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June 20, 2012

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eISSN: 1898-4436

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