Preface to the series Acknowledgements Introduction: Pragmatics and praxis Jan-Ola Ostman 1. Praxis 2. Practical linguistics 3. 'Pragmatics in practice' 3.1 Everyday language use in practice 3.2 Language and ethics 3.3 Pragmatic adaptability in practice 3.4 Linguistics 'applied' 4. Towards responsibility in practice Applied Linguistics Britt-Louise Gunnarsson 1. Introduction 2. The educational setting 2.1 Child language and early literacy 2.2 Classroom interaction 2.3 Second and foreign language learning 2.4 Teaching methodology and language testing 2.5 Schooling and society 3. The economic-technical setting 3.1 Improving written documents 3.2 Studies of discourse in organizations 4. Legal and bureaucratic settings 4.1 Comprehensibility of legal and bureaucratic language 4.2 Asymmetries in court and police encounters 4.3 Forensic linguistics 5. The medical-social setting 6. The workplace 6.1 Workplace interaction 6.2 Conflicts and negotiations 6.3 Discourse and technology 7. Science and the academic setting 7.1 The sociological-rhetorical study of scientific discourse 7.2 The study of academic genres and writing 7.3 Spoken discourse within academia 8. Conclusion Authenticity Martin Gill 1. Introduction 2. Historical background 3. Understanding the concept 3.1 Properties of authenticity 3.2 Establishing authenticity 3.3 Experiencing authenticity 4. Authenticity and language 4.1 The Romantic legacy 4.2 Authenticating language 5. Conclusions Clinical pragmatics Michael R. Perkins 1. The scope of clinical pragmatics z. Theoretical issues 2.1 Is pragmatic impairment a neurological, cognitive or behavioural phenomenon? 2.2 Modular vs interactionist theories of pragmatic impairment 3. Describing pragmatic impairment 3.1 Pragmatic profiles 3.2 Pragmatic theories and frameworks 3.3 Neuropragmatics 3.4 Cognitive pragmatics 4. The range of pragmatic impairments 4.1 Primary pragmatic impairment 4.2 Secondary pragmatic impairment 5. Clinical pragmatics and pragmatic theory Computer-mediated communication Alexandra Georgakopoulou 1. Introduction …… Contrastive analysis Corpus analysis Emphasis Error analysis General semantics Irony Language ecology Language policy,language planning and standardization Language and the law Lieracy Mass media Rhetoric Signed Language pragmatics Stylistics Translation studies Index