Pragmalinguistics: Сorpora and discourse studies

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.