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Editorial Lodz Papers in Pragmatics 12.1 (2016): 1­2 DOI: 10.1515/lpp-2016-0001 The pragmatic perspective on language, as has been frequently emphasized and demonstrated here, entails interest in all levels of linguistic structure and contexts of language use, as well as various aspects of the language-society-cognition interface. The present issue of Lodz Papers in Pragmatics, exploring a web of such interconnections and interdependencies across various public spaces and social domains, comprises five research articles and one book review. The contributions address various aspects of language use in social interactions along with its cognitive dimension and cultural embedding. The theoretical perspectives adopted by the authors draw on cognitive linguistics, sociolinguistics, linguistic anthropology, conversation analysis, multimodal discourse analysis and interactional linguistics. The data analysed in the articles, the assumptions adopted and the results that follow, seem to confirm the validity of the points made by Gunter Senft in his Understanding pragmatics book (2014), namely that 1) languages are used by their speakers in social interactions to create social bonds and accountability relations, 2) "[s]peech is part of the context of situation in which it is produced" (p. 3), 3) language users follow conventions, rules and regulations, 4) "[t]he meaning of words, phrases and http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Lodz Papers in Pragmatics de Gruyter

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Lodz Papers in Pragmatics 12.1 (2016): 1­2 DOI: 10.1515/lpp-2016-0001 The pragmatic perspective on language, as has been frequently emphasized and demonstrated here, entails interest in all levels of linguistic structure and contexts of language use, as well as various aspects of the language-society-cognition interface. The present issue of Lodz Papers in Pragmatics, exploring a web of such interconnections and interdependencies across various public spaces and social domains, comprises five research articles and one book review. The contributions address various aspects of language use in social interactions along with its cognitive dimension and cultural embedding. The theoretical perspectives adopted by the authors draw on cognitive linguistics, sociolinguistics, linguistic anthropology, conversation analysis, multimodal discourse analysis and interactional linguistics. The data analysed in the articles, the assumptions adopted and the results that follow, seem to confirm the validity of the points made by Gunter Senft in his Understanding pragmatics book (2014), namely that 1) languages are used by their speakers in social interactions to create social bonds and accountability relations, 2) "[s]peech is part of the context of situation in which it is produced" (p. 3), 3) language users follow conventions, rules and regulations, 4) "[t]he meaning of words, phrases and

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Published: Jun 1, 2016

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