Table of Contents

In memoriam Terence McLaughlin
Hedwig Schwall

Thematic section: Common Sense(s) 

When ministers were digging in for a fight…
Eric Caers

Common sense reasoning and Gricean pragmatics: a psychological and logical account of conditionals
Kevin Demiddele, Kristien Dieussaert and Ingrid Van Canegem-Ardijns

Language policy in the United States : uncommon language and the discourse of common sense
Panyata Gounari

“The old solid English standard of common sense” – British common sense discourse in the eighteenth century
Christoph Henke

Literature and Cultural Studies

The realist underground: Referential practices at the turn of the twenty-first century
Christophe Den Tandt

Performing the American multi-ethnic “Other” in Hwang's Bondage and Geiogamah's Foghorn
Caroline De Wagter

“Those Colours Saved For Better Days”: History and myth in the poetry on the Battle of Isandlwana, Zululand , 1879. A new historicist reading
Joris Verdonck

Linguistics and Translation Studies

The prefix /be-/bi-/ as a marker of verbs of deception in late Old and early Middle English
Peter Petré

I guess, I suppose and I believe as pragmatic markers: Grammaticalization and functions
Julie Van Bogaert

English Language Teaching

Grounding techniques in computer-mediated classroom tasks
Réka Eszeny and Per van der Wijst

How multilingual are the Dutch really? On proficiency in Dutch, English, French, and German in Dutch organizations
Bert van Onna and Carel Jansen

A digital European Language Portfolio for Languages for Special Purposes
Lut Baten and Els De Sweemer

Review Articles

Reassessing David Mamet and Sam Shepard
Johan Callens

Pragmatic Stylistics?
Jean-Pierre van Noppen

Book Reviews 

Ben Rampton. Language in Late Modernity: Interaction in an Urban School . (Jean Jacques Weber)
Bart Hollebrandse, Angeliek van Hout and Co Vet (eds). Crosslinguistic views on tense, aspect and modality . (Jimmy Ureel)
Corony Edwards and Jane Willis (eds). Teachers Exploring Tasks in English Language Teaching. ( Teun De Rycker)

Acknowledgements

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