Introduction

This journal offers a forum for theoretical and applied linguists to publish and discuss research in the new linguistic discipline that stands at the intersection of corpus linguistics and pragmatics. The objective is to develop pragmatics with the aid of quantitative corpus methodology.The journal promotes the combination of the two approaches through research on new topics in linguistics, with a particular focus on interdisciplinary studies, and the aim of enlarging and implementing current pragmatic theories that have hitherto not benefited from empirical corpus support, such as artificial intelligence, world Englishes, non-verbal communication and pragmatics, pragmatic features of minority, displaced and disadvantaged populations, pragmatics and (mental) health.

Editorial Board

Reviews Editor
Lieven Buysse, Ph.D., K.U. Leuven, Belgium
Editorial Board Members
Karin Aijmer, Ph.D., University of Gothenburg, Sweden
Carolina Amador-Moreno, Ph.D., University of Bergen, Norway
Clyde Ancarno, Ph.D., King’s College London, UK
Stavros Assimakopoulos, Ph.D., University of Malta, Msida, Malta
Nancy E. Avila-Ledesma, Ph.D., Universidad de Extremadura, Spain
Fabienne Baider, Ph.D., University of Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus
Anne Barron, Ph.D., Leuphana Universität Luneburg, Germany
Pilar Garcés-Conejos Blitvich, Ph.D., University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA
Joanna Blochowiak, Ph.D., Université catholique de Louvain, Louvain-La-Neuve, Belgium
Christopher Butler, Ph.D., Independent scholar, UK
Alessandro Capone, Ph.D., University of Messina, Italy
Marta Carretero, Ph.D., Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain
Brian Clancy, Ph.D., Mary Immaculate College – University of Limerick, Ireland
Avelino Corral Esteban, Ph.D., Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain
Jonathan Culpeper, Ph.D., Lancaster University, UK
Joan Cutting, Ph.D., University of Edinburgh, UK
Louis de Saussure, Ph.D., University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland
María Belén Díez-Bedmar, Ph.D., Universidad de Jaén, Spain
Awni Etaywe, Ph.D., Charles Darwin University, Australia
César Félix-Brasdefer, Ph.D., Indiana University, Bloomington, USA
Kenneth Fordyce, Ph.D., University of Edinburgh, UK
Sara Gesuato, Ph.D., University of Padova, Italy
Rachel Giora, Ph.D., University of Tel Aviv, Israel
Anna Gladkova, Ph.D., Monash University, Melbourne, Australia
Cliff Goddard, Ph.D., Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia
Stefan Th. Gries, Ph.D., University of California Santa Barbara, USA
Cristina Grisot, Ph.D., University of Zürich, Switzerland
Michael Haugh, Ph.D., University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
Leo Francis Hoye, Ph.D., Hong Kong University, China
Elly Ifantidou, Ph.D., University of Athens, Greece
Jingyang Jiang, Ph.D., Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China
Yan Jiang, Ph.D., SOAS University of London, UK
Andreas H. Jucker, Ph.D., University of Zürich, Switzerland
Istvan Kecskes, Ph.D., deceased 2025, formerly at State University of New York, Albany, USA
Anne O’ Keeffe, Ph.D., University of Limerick, Ireland
Dawn Knight, Ph.D., Cardiff University, UK
Dale Koike, Ph.D., University of Austin Texas, USA
J. Lachlan Mackenzie, Ph.D., VU Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Anna Mauranen, Ph.D., University of Helsinki, Finland
Jacques Moeschler, Ph.D., University of Geneva, Switzerland
Neal Norrick, Ph.D., Saarland University, Saarbrücken, Germany
Eva Ogiermann, Ph.D., King’s College, London, UK
Silvia Riesco Bernier, Ph.D., Escuela Oficial de Idiomas de Torrejón de Ardoz, Spain
Yalda Sadeghi, Ph.D., IE University, Segovia, Spain
Maite Taboada, Ph.D., Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, Canada
Jef Verschueren, Ph.D., University of Antwerp, Belgium
Vander Viana, Ph.D., University of Edinburgh, UK
Deirdre Wilson, Ph.D., University College London, UK

Aims & Scope

• Research at the interface of corpus linguistics and pragmatics

• Quantitative corpus‐based studies, including statistical analyses and R‑scripts

• Theoretical frameworks that pragmatically interpret corpus data

• Applied/interdisciplinary topics:

  • Artificial Intelligence

  • World Englishes

  • Non‑verbal communication

  • Pragmatics of minority, displaced, and disadvantaged groups

  • Language and (mental) health

Article Types Accepted:

• Original research articles

• Short research notes

• Occasional thematic/special issues