In a world in which major technological advances have considerably boosted the use of web as communication tool, analysis digital press releases to disseminate information on case-related activity judicial courts and project their social institutional identity far wide is useful understand an evolving continuum professional discursive practices (re-)shaped within media (public relations) strate...

Abstract This study investigates the impact of spending more than three years in an English environment on Saudi migrants’ metapragmatic judgments Arabic L1 nonverbal greetings and their personality traits. Participants are 437 adults comprising groups: L2 speakers UK, Saudis Arabia, British UK. They observed rated audiovisual stimulus illustrating greeting behaviours handshake cheek-to-cheek k...

In this paper, we investigate the pressures placed upon English teaching by neo-nationalist politics, particularly as it overlays existing neoliberal constraints. We focus on experiences and perspectives of Brazilian teachers who are committed to critical language education even carries increasing risks themselves. Interviews with five used illustrate ways in which their work is regulated throu...

Abstract This paper presents an exploratory study of meta-illocutionary expressions, i.e. everyday vocabulary such as request , promise and insult used to explicitly refer speech acts label, discuss negotiate them in communication. Taking the example expressions referring apologising Irish English, question is addressed which contexts, forms functions these are used. Evidence from ICE-Ireland S...

Public apologies are one of the most prominent examples of migration of speech acts from the private to the public sphere and now commonly feature in a wide range of public and media settings. Judging by the last two decades, the act of public apology is clearly in the process of social change, although perhaps more particularly in English-speaking cultures. The paper inscribes itself in a grow...

This special issue on ‘metacommunication in instructional settings’ deals with the topic of language awareness in an integrated framework of interaction, context and communication. What brings the four contributions (Kress, Ogborn and Martins; Sarangi; Roberts; van Lier) together is a concern with the relationship between what is communicated in and through language vis-à-vis other semiotic sys...