Sara Gesuato, Ph.D. (1999), is associate professor of English language at the University of Padua, Italy. Her research interests include pragmatics, discourse analysis and corpus linguistics. She has investigated expressive speech acts, academic genres and catenative verb constructions.Francesca Bianchi, Ph.D. (2012), Lancaster University, is lecturer of English language and translation at the University of Salento, Italy. Her research interests include corpus linguistics and audiovisual translation. She has recently published a volume titled “Culture, corpora and semantics”.

• ContentIntroductionPart One: Handling multiple communicative goals in interpreting settings1. Pragma-argumentative analysis of source texts in interpreter training. Switching on the light in the ‘pragmatic dark’Emanuele Brambilla2. Meanings and forms of intercultural coordination: the pragmatics of interpreter-mediated healthcare communicationFederico Farini3. The interpreter’s role in dialogue interpreting on television: A training methodEugenia Dal FovoPart Two:Interactional strategies in scholarly contexts4. The pragmatics of spoken academic discourse in the framework of TED talks: a case studyAntonio Compagnone5. Pedagogical implications of evaluation in academic domains: praise and criticism in archaeology book reviewsDaniela Cesiri6. Academic email requests: A pragmalinguistic and sociopragmatic comparison between faculty and studentsPhoenix LamPart Three:Functional and phraseological patterns in scripted conversation7. Teaching compliments and insults in the EFL classroom through film clipsSilvia Bruti8. The Cognitive and Sociopragmatic Interfaces of Intercultural Humor: Watching Roberto Benigni’s movies in JapanChiara ZamborlinPart Four:Context-informed pedagogy in the classroom9. Exploring textual pragmatic markers in a multilingual classroom context: insights for teaching pragmaticsSofía Martín-Laguna10. Small Research Projects about Social and Regional Variation for Advanced University Students of English in Sweden: Their Purpose and ContentThorsten Schröter