1. Contributors; 2. Introduction; 3. On the relatedness of functionalism and pragmatics (by Gomez Gonzalez, Maria de los Angeles); 4. I. Methods in the analysis of language and discourse; 5. Developing comprehensive criteria of adequacy: The challenge of hybridity (by Wray, Alison); 6. A method of analysing recontextualisation in the communication of science (by Connolly, John); 7. Contrastive corpus annotation in the CONTRANOT project: Issues and problems (by Lavid, Julia); 8. Form and function in evaluative language: The use of corpora to identify context valence shifters in a linguistically-motivated sentiment analysis system (by Moreno Ortiz, Antonio); 9. Life before Nation: Bibliometrics and L2 vocabulary studies in 1982 (by Meara, Paul); 10. II. Pragmatics and grammar; 11. A lexico-paradigmatic approach to English setting-constructions (by Guerrero Medina, Pilar); 12. How did we think? (by Janssens, Karolien); 13. The adverb truly in Present-Day English (by Simon-Vandenbergen, Anne-Marie); 14. III. Current trends in pragmatics and discourse analysis; 15. Nominal reference and the dynamics of discourse: A cognitive-functional approach (by Davidse, Kristin); 16. 'Pragmatic punting' and prosody: Evidence from corpora (by Romero-Trillo, Jesus); 17. Besides as a connective (by Hannay, Mike); 18. Searle and Sinclair on communicative acts: A sketch of a research problem (by Stubbs, Michael); 19. Strategies of (in)directness in Spanish speakers' production of complaints and disagreements in English and Spanish (by Hidalgo-Downing, Laura); 20. Name index; 21. Term index