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Front Matter / Francesca Bianchi and Sara Gesuato -- Introduction / Sara Gesuato -- A Pragma-Argumentative Approach to Interpreter Training: Switching on the Light in the ‘Pragmatic Dark’ / Emanuele Brambilla -- Meanings and Forms of Intercultural Coordination: The Pragmatics of Interpreter-Mediated Healthcare Communication / Federico Farini -- The Interpreter’s Role in Dialogue Interpreting on Television: A Training Method / Eugenia Dal Fovo -- The Pragmatics of Spoken Academic Discourse in the Framework of TED Talks: A Case Study / Antonio Compagnone -- Pedagogical Implications of Evaluation in Academic Domains: Praise and Criticism in Archaeology Book Reviews / Daniela Cesiri -- Academic Email Requests: A Pragmalinguistic and Sociopragmatic Comparison between Faculty and Students / Phoenix Lam -- Teaching Compliments and Insults in the EFL Classroom through Film Clips / Silvia Bruti -- The Cognitive and Sociopragmatic Interfaces of Intercultural Humor: Watching Roberto Benigni’s Movies in Japan / Chiara Zamborlin -- Exploring Textual Pragmatic Markers in a Multilingual Classroom Context / Sofía Martín-Laguna -- Small Research Projects about Social and Regional Variation for Advanced University Students of English in Sweden: Their Purpose and Content / Thorsten Schröter.

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Pragmatic Issues in Specialized Communicative Contexts , edited by Francesca Bianchi and Sara Gesuato, illustrates how interactants systematically and effectively employ micro and macro linguistic resources and textual strategies to engage in communicative practices in such specific contexts as healthcare services, TV interpreting, film dialogue, TED talks, archaeology academic communication, student-teacher communication, and multilingual classrooms. Each contribution presents a pedagogical slant, reporting on or suggesting didactic approaches to, or applications of, pragmatic aspects of communication in SL, FL and LSP learning contexts. The topics covered and the issues addressed are all directly relevant to applied pragmatics, that is, pragmatically oriented linguistic analysis that accounts for interpersonal-transactional issues in real-life situated communication.

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