The handbook has a particular focus on covering not only traditional topics in the field, such
as constructs of pragmatic competence (eg, speech acts, implicature), teaching and …

Asia is now home to some 800 million multilingual speakers of English, more than the total
number of native English speakers, and how they use English is continuously evolving and …

This paper examines how Asian speakers of English as a lingua franca employ self-
denigration as a relational strategy (ie contributing to the ongoing management of …

As the number of global users of English continues to grow, an understanding and
appreciation of English as a lingua franca (ELF) is crucial to accurately describe the use of …

This paper explores evaluations of attempts at humour and reactions to them by participants
and non-participants in a jocular interaction. There are two levels of analysis:(1) the …

Although research on humorous practices of Anglo-Australians has received much attention,
the understanding of those practices by members of various multilingual communities …

This study explores the conversational humour of Asian multilinguals using English as a
lingua franca (elf)–specifically, their use of (im) politeness strategies to humorously maintain …

This chapter presents key theoretical concepts related to humor. It reviews both foundational
and published empirical studies that look at the role of humor in second language (L2) …

For me, pragmatics in English in a lingua franca (ELF) is epitomised by a record ing in the
Asian Corpus of English (ACE) of three female students chatting in a college dormitory …

This is an explanatory case study of how translanguaging offers space for practicing two
shared languages: Saudi Pidgin Arabic and English as a lingua franca (ELF). It attends …