• Introduction.- PART I. THEORETICAL FOUNDATIONS. Pragmatics through the Prism of Society.- How can Intercultural Pragmatics bring in some new Insight into Pragmatics Theories?.- Critical Discourse Analysis: Definition, Approaches, Relation to Pragmatics, Critique and Trends.- Pronouns and Pragmatics.- Pragmatic Disorders and Social Functioning: a Lifespan  Perspective.- The Dialogic Principle Revisited, Speech Acts and Mental States.- Philosophy and Psychoanalysis. Wittgenstein, on «language-games» and Ethics.- The Individual and the Social Path of Interpretation:  The Case of Incomplete Disjunctive Questions.- Discourse and Racism.- Discourse Markers in Oral Narratives.- Propositional Attitudes and Cultural Scripts.- Modular, Cellular, Integral: A Pragmatic Elephant?.- What can Pragmatics Learn from the Law?.- PART II. LINGUISTICS AND PRAGMATICS. A Benchmark for Politeness.- Impoliteness Strategies.- Reconstructing ArgumentativeDiscourse with the Help of Speech Act Conditions.- Presupposition as Argumentative Reasoning.- Adpositions, Deixis, and Anti-Deixis.- Transparency and Context in Legal Communication: Pragmatics and Legal Interpretation.-Conversational Implicatures in Normative Texts.- PART III. DISCOURSE. Cultural Analysis of Discourse.- Transcription as Second-order Entextualizations: The Challenge of Heteroglossia.- Institutional Metadiscourse.- “Porque  in  Spanish  Oral  Narratives: Semantic porque, (meta) Pragmatic porque or Both?”.- Argumentation and Connectives.- The Origin of Reason through an Outline of the Genealogy of Language in the Light of Homonymity, Analogy and Metaphor.- PART IV. THE PRAGMATICS OF UTTERANCE. Joint Utterances and the (Split-) Turn Taking Puzzle.- The Metapragmatics of Direct Utterances.- Exclamatives, Embedding and Grounded Belief.- An Assessment of the Negative and Positive Aspects of Stereotypes and the Derogatory and Non-Derogatory Uses of Slurs.- PART V. CULTURAL PERSPECTIVES. A Critical Look at the Description of Speech Acts.-  The Pragmatics of ‘can’ in Singapore Mandarin.- Collectivism and Coercion: The Social Practice of ‘sharing’ and Distinctive uses of the Verb ‘share’ in Contemporary Singapore.- Emotional Feelings as a Form of Evidence: A Case Study of Visceral Evidentiality in Mormon Culture.- Rituals of Death as Staged Communicative Acts and Pragmemes.- Twenty-seven Views of Language Socialization.

"Interdisciplinary Studies in Pragmatics, Culture and Society is a precious resource for anybody who studies language and society. As the authors note at the beginning of the book, societal pragmatics is only a drop in the ocean of language related studies. ... book shows that there are many aspects of pragmatic studies that are societally relevant. The volume makes a successful attempt in persuading the reader that societal pragmatics deserves to be admitted as a member of the linguistic club." (Valentina Cardella, Intercultural Pragmatics, Vol. 13 (4), November, 2016)