preface to the seriesacknowledgementsintroduction: pragmatics and praxisjan-ola ostman1. praxis2. practical linguistics3. 'pragmatics in practice' 3.1 everyday language use in practice 3.2 language and ethics 3.3 pragmatic adaptability in practice 3.4 linguistics 'applied'4. towards responsibility in practiceapplied linguisticsbritt-louise gunnarsson1. introduction2. the educational setting 2.1 child language and early literacy 2.2 classroom interaction 2.3 second and foreign language learning 2.4 teaching methodology and language testing 2.5 schooling and society3. the economic-technical setting 3.1 improving written documents 3.2 studies of discourse in organizations4. legal and bureaucratic settings 4.1 comprehensibility of legal and bureaucratic language 4.2 asymmetries in court and police encounters 4.3 forensic linguistics5. the medical-social setting6. the workplace 6.1 workplace interaction 6.2 conflicts and negotiations 6.3 discourse and technology7. science and the academic setting 7.1 the sociological-rhetorical study of scientific discourse 7.2 the study of academic genres and writing 7.3 spoken discourse within academia8. conclusionauthenticitymartin gill1. introduction2. historical background3. understanding the concept 3.1 properties of authenticity 3.2 establishing authenticity 3.3 experiencing authenticity4. authenticity and language 4.1 the romantic legacy 4.2 authenticating language5. conclusionsclinical pragmaticsmichael r. perkins1. the scope of clinical pragmaticsz. theoretical issues 2.1 is pragmatic impairment a neurological, cognitive or behavioural phenomenon? 2.2 modular vs interactionist theories of pragmatic impairment3. describing pragmatic impairment 3.1 pragmatic profiles 3.2 pragmatic theories and frameworks 3.3 neuropragmatics 3.4 cognitive pragmatics4. the range of pragmatic impairments 4.1 primary pragmatic impairment 4.2 secondary pragmatic impairment5. clinical pragmatics and pragmatic theorycomputer-mediated communicationalexandra georgakopoulou1. introduction……contrastive analysiscorpus analysisemphasiserror analysisgeneral semanticsironylanguage ecologylanguage policy,language planning and standardizationlanguage and the lawlieracymass mediarhetoricsigned language pragmatics stylisticstranslation studiesindex