Volume 17 (1997)
 

• Al-Khatib, Mahmoud A. Provoking arguments for provoking laughter: A case study of the candid camera TV show 17(3): 263-299.
• Avery, Clare and Charles Antaki. Conversational devices in stories turning on appearance versus reality 17(1): 1-24.
• Azar, Moshe. Concession relations as argumentation 17(3): 301-316.
• Chen, Ping and Gu Yuengou. Introduction (Special issue: Chinese Discourse Analysis) 17(4): 431-433.
• Dixon, John A., Steve Reicher, and Don H. Foster. Ideology, geography, racial exclusion: The squatter camp as ‘blot on the landscape’ 17(3): 317-348.
• Duranti, Alessandro. Polyphonic discourse: Overlapping in Samoan ceremonial greetings 17(3): 349-381.
• Gu Yang. On defining causativity and the significance of discourse information 17(4): 435-455.
• Gu Yueguo. Five ways of handling a bedpan – A tripartite approach to workplace discourse 17(4): 457-475.
• Hutchby, Ian. Building alignments in public debate: A case study from British TV 17(2): 161-179.
• Kops, Matthew. ‘Order’, as background knowledge and assumption 17(3): 383-403.
• Marriott, Stephanie. The emergence of live television talk 17(2): 181-198.
• McCarthy, Michael and Ronald Carter. Grammar, tails, and affect: Constructing expressive choices in discourse 17(3): 405-429.
• Obeng, Samuel Gyasi. Communication strategies: Persuasion and politeness in Akan judicial discourse 17(1): 25-51.
• Placencia, María Elena. Opening up closings — the Ecuadorian way 17(1): 53-81.
• Richardson, Kay P. Twenty-first-century commerce: The case of QVC 17(2): 199-223.
• Scannell, Paddy. Saying and showing: A pragmatic and phenomenological study of a television documentary 17(2): 225-240.
• Scollon, Ron and Suzie Scollon. Point of view and citation: Fourteen Chinese and English versions of the ‘same’ news story 17(1): 83-125.
• Schen Jiaxuan and Gu Yuegou. Conversation and sentence-hood 17(4): 477-489.
• Short, Mick and Hu Wenzhong. Analyzing the changing character and sophistication of TV advertisements in the People’s Republic of China 17(4): 491-515.
• Thornborrow, Joanna. Having their say: The function of stories in talkshow discourse 17(2): 241-262.
• Wu, Dongying and Hui Him Man. Personage description in Hong Kong versus mainland Chinese entertainment news discourse 17(4): 517-542.
• Zhu Yunxia. An analysis of structural moves in Chinese sales letters 17(4): 543-566.
• Zyngier, Sonia and Maria Lucia Seidl de Moura. Pragmatic aspects of spontaneous electronic communication in a scholl setting 17(1): 127.156.