Russian Journal of Linguistics
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items: Istvan KECSKES (1947-2025)
items: Pragmalinguistics: Сorpora and discourse studies
items: Who is to be considered a speaker in macropragmatics
items: Metatextual discourse markers as pragmatic units: A corpus-based analysis of poetic discourse and colloquial speech
items: Pragmatic markers and ideological positioning in EUROPARL: A corpus-based study
items: The segmentation of spontaneous speech from an interactive-functional prosodic approach
items: Interjections as pragmatic particles in Modern Greek: Using diverse corpora in identifying pragmatic functions
items: Formulaicity and pragmatics of contact-terminating means in cinematic vs. artistic discourse: A corpus study
items: Spanish bueno in metadiscursive contexts: A constructional-pragmatic analysis
items: Generic uses of the English pronoun one and the Spanish pronoun uno in parliamentary debates
items: Metaphorical image of the BRICS in South African media discourse: A corpus-based study
items: Review of Sokolova O., Zakharkiv E. Pragmatics and poetics: Poetic discourse in new media. Moscow: New Literary Review, 2025. 328 p.
items: Review of Zolyan S.T., Tulchinsky G.L., Chernyavskaya V.E. 2024. Pragmasemantics and philosophy of language. Moscow: YASK. 326 p.

Istvan KECSKES (1947-2025)
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volume: 29
number: 4
starting page: 729
ending page: 730
doi: 10.22363/2687-0088-47818

Pragmalinguistics: Сorpora and discourse studies
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description: Pragmalinguistics is a dynamic field of study that combines insights from pragmatics, discourse analysis, and corpus linguistics to examine how speakers use language to achieve communicative goals and construct meaning in various social and cultural contexts. This field has seen significant growth over the past few decades, due to methodological innovations and a growing interest in analyzing real-world language data. The relevance of this issue is due to the increasing interest in using corpora and discourse analysis to study “language in use” and “language in action”. The volume aims to discuss the current state of pragmalinguistic research and its connections with other linguistic methods, contributing to the innovative and promising field of corpus pragmatics. This issue presents a range of theoretical and empirical studies that use corpus-based methods to investigate language as a means of communication, social interaction, and intercultural understanding. It emphasizes the significance of corpora in exploring various aspects of pragmatics, including discourse, intercultural, social, cognitive-inferential, and historical perspectives. It also highlights the potential of an interdisciplinary approach to enhance corpus pragmatics by providing fresh insights into the structure, function, and variation of pragmatic units across languages and discourses and discusses the prospects for future research in the field.
creator: Franck Floricic
creator: Olga V. Sokolova
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Floricic F., Sokolova O.V. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
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date: 2025-12-29
publication date: 2025-12-29
volume: 29
number: 4
starting page: 731
ending page: 744
doi: 10.22363/2687-0088-46503

Who is to be considered a speaker in macropragmatics
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description: Pragmatics is typically understood as the study of relationship between the subject and the sign system. Therefore, identifying the subject is a crucial issue that influences the development of this field. However, it is still common to limit the concept of the subject in pragmatics to observable entities, primarily the speaker. The limitations of this approach become particularly evident in the study of suprapersonal communication, where institutions or imaginary communities serve as communicators . This paper aims to identify the pragmatic characteristics of interlocutors in suprapersonal communication. Сonsider the formation of pragmatics, and the further distinction between macro- and micropragmatics as well between branches of pragmatics such as intercultural, cross-cultural, and socio-cultural pragmatics. As a result of the analysis of these concepts, supported by the consideration of specific cases of non-personalized communication, I conclude that it is necessary to change the approach to the subject by introducing the concept of “imaginary communicant”. This can be seen as a development of Charles Pierce’s approach to semantics as a result of the interaction of a quasi-speaker and a quasi-interpreter welded within the sign . Additionally, I suggest a new distinction between macro- and megapragmatics. The term macropragmatics can be applied to situations where communication agents are identifiable with specific institutional entities acting as “speaking persons”. This makes it possible to transcend back to real individuals. This concept should be distinguished from “megapragmatics,” which pertains to global imagined entities endowed with semiotic selves, such as nations, cultures, or societies. The study contributes to a better understanding of how the concept of the interlocutor applies to suprapersonal levels of intercultural and sociocultural communication and what semiotic characteristics it can be endowed with on the macropragmatic level.
creator: Suren T. Zolyan
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Zolyan S.T. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
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date: 2025-12-29
publication date: 2025-12-29
volume: 29
number: 4
starting page: 745
ending page: 768
doi: 10.22363/2687-0088-45955

Metatextual discourse markers as pragmatic units: A corpus-based analysis of poetic discourse and colloquial speech
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description: Researchers typically examine metatextual discourse markers as linguistic tools that promote cohesion and logical coherence. Therefore, their functioning beyond these traditional roles remains insufficiently explored. This article analyses the use of inferential markers следовательно, quindi and therefore across different communicative practices, comparing poetic discourse with ordinary language to trace the expansion of their functional potential. A comparative analysis of these units demonstrates how different types of discourse reorganize logical, pragmatic and semantic relations. In order to address the various and overlapping definitions of discourse and pragmatic markers, this study adopts the concept of pragmatic units, which encompasses deictics, discourse markers, illocutionary verbs and modal verbs. Analyzing these linguistic elements in terms of pragmatic markers enables a thorough investigation into how they perform communicative and metalinguistic functions, express the speaker’s stance, indicate the coordinates of the communicative act, structure discourse and organize interaction. The goal of this study is to identify the functional and pragmatic modifications of metatextual discourse markers in poetic discourse compared to ordinary language. Drawing on a Poetic Corpus of three million words in three languages (Russian, Italian, and English), the research compares these markers with those found in Spoken Language Corpora, such as the Russian National Corpus (Spoken), KiParla (L’italiano parlato e chi parla italiano), and the Corpus of Contemporary American English (Spoken). The results provide deeper insight into the mechanisms of the pragmatic dimension of language, define the pragmatic specificity of contemporary poetry, and demonstrate how metatextual discourse markers expand their functional potential, display multifunctionality, and undergo context-driven resemantization.
creator: Olga V. Sokolova
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Sokolova O.V. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
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date: 2025-12-29
publication date: 2025-12-29
volume: 29
number: 4
starting page: 769
ending page: 794
doi: 10.22363/2687-0088-45733

Pragmatic markers and ideological positioning in EUROPARL: A corpus-based study
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description: Political persuasion in institutional contexts often relies on subtle linguistic cues rather than overt argumentation. While Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) has extensively examined macro-level ideological strategies, the micro-pragmatic mechanisms through which everyday expressions shape political meaning remain underexplored. This study addresses this gap by analysing how pragmatic markers contribute to the implicit manipulation and ideological positioning of speakers in European parliamentary discourse. The aim of the paper is to provide tools for the analysis of manipulation and to show how micro-level pragmatic markers can reveal implicit persuasive strategies such as presupposing agreement or invoking shared knowledge. Drawing on the EUROPARL corpus of European Parliament debates, Critical Discourse Analysis, and Furkó’s (2019, 2020) critical-pragmatic approach, it analyzes markers such as of course, well, but, and you know. The study shows that while traditionally linked to cohesion and interaction management, these markers also play pivotal roles in populist and strategic discursive practices. The interplay of evidential markers, modal adverbs, and general extenders reveals how they jointly background information, reinforce polarization, and recontextualize arguments. Their frequency, distribution, and co-occurrence patterns reflect broader socio-political trends and manipulative strategies of legitimation. Far from being ancillary, pragmatic markers are integral to authority enactment, ideological contestation, suppression of alternative viewpoints, and consensus-building. In addition to corpus methods, the study explores AI-assisted tools for identifying and categorizing pragmatic phenomena in large political corpora, highlighting both their potential and limitations. By integrating pragmatics, corpus linguistics, and CDA, it advances an interdisciplinary approach to language, power, and politics in parliamentary settings.
creator: Péter Bálint Furkó
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Furkó P.B. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
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date: 2025-12-29
publication date: 2025-12-29
volume: 29
number: 4
starting page: 795
ending page: 816
doi: 10.22363/2687-0088-45985

The segmentation of spontaneous speech from an interactive-functional prosodic approach
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description: For a long time spoken language has been interpreted through the lens of written norms, often producing analytical models that are partial or distorted. Traditional approaches overlooked how prosody shapes discourse structure and meaning. The aim of the study is to develop a segmentation model that adequately represents the organization of spontaneous conversational speech. The analysis draws on an excerpt from a pragmatic corpus of colloquial speech, examined at the monologic level within the Val.Es.Co. framework (Briz & Val.Es.Co. 2014). Methodologically, it combines acoustic analysis with Hidalgo’s (2019) Interactive-Functional Analysis (IFA) model. Using Praat software, pitch movement, melodic contours, and prosodic boundaries are examined to identify speech acts and subacts (smaller constituent units). Results show that prosodic features - pitch declination, hierarchical organization, and integration - effectively demarcate discourse units that syntactic criteria often miss. The case study confirms that the principles of Pitch Declination (PDP), Hierarchy/Recursivity (H/RP), and Integration (IP) align with the segmentation into acts and subacts, supporting intonation as a key cue for delimiting meaningful conversational units. By prioritizing prosody and aligning segmentation practices with the realities of oral communication, this research advances our understanding of the functional principles underpinning real-time construction and interpretation of meaning. The proposed model enhances the representation of spontaneous speech by providing a pragmaprosodic analytical framework that positions prosody as a central organizing principle and encourages a shift from static, syntax-based paradigms toward context-sensitive analyses that reflect the true dynamics of spoken language.
creator: Antonio Hidalgo Navarro
creator: Noelia Ruano Piqueras
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Hidalgo Navarro A., Ruano Piqueras N. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
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date: 2025-12-29
publication date: 2025-12-29
volume: 29
number: 4
starting page: 817
ending page: 836
doi: 10.22363/2687-0088-45757

Interjections as pragmatic particles in Modern Greek: Using diverse corpora in identifying pragmatic functions
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description: The paper offers an overview of the frequency and functions of three basic interjections in Greek, the phonologically minimal α /a/ ‘ah, huh’, ε /e/ ‘eh’ and ω or ο /o/ ‘oh’, with the aim of identifying the full range of their uses that have not been dealt with in the literature, which mainly treats them as elements denoting emotions. The data comes from a variety of Modern Greek corpora, including the conversational and the literary sub-corpora of the Corpus of Greek Texts (CGT, 1990–2010), the Corpus of Greek Film Dialogue and, for reasons of diachronic comparison, the Diachronic Corpus of Greek of the 20th Century (CGT20, 1900–1989). The findings suggest that, although a and e are both found among the 50 most frequent items, e is three times more frequent that a, while o is almost non-existent in conversation, in contrast to literary data, especially from an earlier period. In addition, a, e and o have developed a range of functions beyond mere exclamation, which include indexing surprise or sudden realization, use in address or as attention signals, evaluation, intensification, the drawing of implicatures, as well as their use as filled pauses or invariant tags. On the basis of these extensive pragmatic uses, it is suggested that interjections like a, e and o function as pragmatic particles having a prominent role in both conversation and its literary and filmic representation. More generally, it seems that the category of “interjection” covers a wide range of actual uses that are more akin to pragmatic particles (Beeching 2002), inserts (Biber et al. 1999) or interactives (Heine 2023), that is elements with a rich contribution to interactive discourse, both in non-scripted and scripted conversation. Corpora can be instrumental in evaluating this pragmatic import and its diachronic development.
creator: Dionysis Goutsos
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Goutsos D. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
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date: 2025-12-29
publication date: 2025-12-29
volume: 29
number: 4
starting page: 837
ending page: 861
doi: 10.22363/2687-0088-45795

Formulaicity and pragmatics of contact-terminating means in cinematic vs. artistic discourse: A corpus study
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description: In measuring “pragmatic authenticity” of cinematic discourse, researchers traditionally compare films of different genres with real-life talks. However, a recently growing tendency towards the colloquialization of the written language of literature (when it is becoming more speech-like) makes it relevant to compare cinematic discourse with other types of artistic discourse from a pragmatic point of view. Among various pragmatically relevant linguistic units, formulas are of special interest due to their colloquial character, recurrence and frequency in everyday conversations. The aim of the study is to identify formulaicity of contact-terminating means (CTM) in cinematic discourse and establish its pragmatic specificity in comparison with that in other types of artistic discourse. To do so, two sample corpora were used: a cinematic corpus compiled ad hoc which includes four British drama films (2000-2020) and the Written BNC2014, in which two subcorpora were applied: “Fiction” and “Written-to-be-Spoken”. The work with the first corpus (Case study-1) resulted in identifying CTM in films and establishing their relation to twelve pragmatic types (‘farewell’, ‘request’, ‘apology’, etc.). The CTM with the highest frequency of occurrence and distribution in the feature films are formulas of farewells. Based on the second corpus (Case study-2), the functioning of three formulas of farewells were explored in different types of artistic discourse in comparison with their use in the films. The corpus findings showed that, unlike films, in artistic discourse these formulas can have other (meta)communicative functions and are characterized by a low degree of variability. Overall, the present research makes a contribution to the development of pragmalinguistics of cinema and artistic communication by providing new data about the use of formulaic means in artistic (in particular, filmic) dialogues.
creator: Irina V. Zykova
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Zykova I.V. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
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date: 2025-12-29
publication date: 2025-12-29
volume: 29
number: 4
starting page: 862
ending page: 885
doi: 10.22363/2687-0088-46296

Spanish bueno in metadiscursive contexts: A constructional-pragmatic analysis
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description: This study examines the Spanish discourse marker (DM) bueno through a constructional-pragmatic approach that challenges traditional lexicocentric analyzes. Its aim is to prove that analyzing the pragmatic-discursive values of this DM as emerging from its participation in certain discourse patterns (DPs) enhances previous descriptions. Building on recent theoretical developments from Hispanic linguistics as well as from research on other languages that warn against lexicocentric semasiological approaches, the study adopts an onomasiological and constructional perspective that advocates for integrated characterizations that capture DMs’ functioning within larger DPs. Through analysis of the Val.Es.Co. corpus of colloquial Spanish conversation (Briz & Grupo Val.Es.Co. 2002), we identify and formalize metadiscursive DPs involving bueno . These include prototypical metadiscursive functions such as topic resumption, topic shift, reformulation, and online planning support, as well as turn-taking and other functions characteristic of turn-initial position in both initiating and, especially, reactive turns, all of which are understood as metadiscursive. Our findings demonstrate that the diverse functional values traditionally attributed exclusively to bueno actually derive from the complete pragmatic-discursive patterns in which this DM participates. Formalized DPs offer practical applications for monolingual and crosslinguistic description, historical reconstruction of grammaticalization pathways, and applied domains such as L2 teaching and machine translation. Theoretically, our results show that the DPs approach resolves persistent contradictions in the literature, where researchers infer DMs’ values from co-text while simultaneously abstracting from that same co-text in their descriptions. In doing so, the study contributes to ongoing debates about constructions beyond sentential level by bridging Construction Grammar frameworks with discourse analysis.
creator: Araceli López Serena
creator: Santiago García Jiménez
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 López Serena A., García Jiménez S. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
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date: 2025-12-29
publication date: 2025-12-29
volume: 29
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starting page: 886
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doi: 10.22363/2687-0088-46457

Generic uses of the English pronoun one and the Spanish pronoun uno in parliamentary debates
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description: Impersonal pronouns one in English and uno in Spanish are described in the literature as functionally similar, combining two meaning components: first-person orientation and generalization. However, their generic uses remain understudied both in the domains of semantics and pragmatics and from a comparative perspective. This study aims to identify similarities and differences in the distributional patterns of generic uses of one and uno in English and Spanish and to establish the role of the generic component of One -impersonals in cross-linguistic correspondences. We adopt a parallel corpus approach (Gast 2015), and conduct a comparative analysis of English one and Spanish uno , drawing on insights from the research on genericity, specifically, the distinction between rules (established norms and regulations) and inductive generalizations (inferences based on observed facts). Using data from the Europarl corpus, our analysis demonstrates that while the frequencies of generic versus non-generic uses are comparable across languages, the distributional patterns of generic uses differ significantly. For generic statements with English one , rules strongly prevail over inductive generalizations, whereas Spanish shows no statistically significant distinction between these categories. For both languages, social rules are more common than other types of rules (moral, legal, biological, and metalinguistic). In Spanish, equivalent contexts of English sentences with one show underrepresentation of first-person forms in generic contexts. Conversely, English equivalent contexts for sentences with uno show underrepresentation of the pronoun you in first-person oriented non-generic uses. The study contributes to better understanding of the generic uses of English one and Spanish uno and reveals their interpretive asymmetry, thereby providing new knowledge of their semantic and pragmatic features.
creator: Elena L. Vilinbakhova
creator: Oksana Yu. Chuikova
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Vilinbakhova E.L., Chuikova O.Y. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
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date: 2025-12-29
publication date: 2025-12-29
volume: 29
number: 4
starting page: 914
ending page: 943
doi: 10.22363/2687-0088-45959

Metaphorical image of the BRICS in South African media discourse: A corpus-based study
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description: The BRICS grouping functions as a civilizational project that realizes unique strategies of identification, self-identification, and image formation on the geopolitical arena. The topicality of the BRICS’ image study is determined by its growing role in the international setup. The present study seeks to examine the BRICS’ metaphorical modelling in the mass-media discourse of one of its member states, the Republic of South Africa. The research data were collected from the News on the Web Corpus. The illustrative corpus was compiled based on thematic, chronological, and frequency principles with the help of computer-aided and manual processing. A total of 521 metaphors were selected from 1000 texts. The methodological foundation of the study is the theory of image schemas, as proposed by M. Johnson and G. Lakoff. The metaphors were studied through quantitative and qualitative methods: quantitative estimation, metaphorical modelling, cognitive, discursive, linguistic and cultural analysis. The findings of this study suggest that despite a relatively low metaphor density in South African media discourse, the BRICS image is structured by more than 10 source domains. The frequency of similar image schemas (e.g., SOURCE-PATH-GOAL, CONTAINER, CENTRE-PERIPHERY, FORCE, LINK, etc.) underlying the metaphors is linked to their capacity to reflect the fundamental characteristics of the grouping: multipolarity, national sovereignty, equality, and mutual beneficial cooperation. Family, game and sport, body, and animal metaphors, based on social and biological archetypes, were found more culturally marked than those relying on universal physical laws (path, mechanism, architecture, war, celestial body). The research contributes to the development of medialinguistics, which provides a solid theoretical and analytical framework for studying international relations and phenomena from a linguistic perspective.
creator: Olga A. Solopova
creator: Natalia N. Koshkarova
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Solopova O.A., Koshkarova N.N. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
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date: 2025-12-29
publication date: 2025-12-29
volume: 29
number: 4
starting page: 944
ending page: 968
doi: 10.22363/2687-0088-45863

Review of Sokolova O., Zakharkiv E. Pragmatics and poetics: Poetic discourse in new media. Moscow: New Literary Review, 2025. 328 p.
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creator: Lara N. Sinelnikova
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Sinelnikova L.N. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
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date: 2025-12-29
publication date: 2025-12-29
volume: 29
number: 4
starting page: 969
ending page: 976
doi: 10.22363/2687-0088-47404

Review of Zolyan S.T., Tulchinsky G.L., Chernyavskaya V.E. 2024. Pragmasemantics and philosophy of language. Moscow: YASK. 326 p.
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creator: Igor A. Sharonov
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Sharonov I.A. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
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date: 2025-12-29
publication date: 2025-12-29
volume: 29
number: 4
starting page: 977
ending page: 982
doi: 10.22363/2687-0088-47418