The Pragmeme of Accommodation: The Case of Interaction around the Event of Death

Part I Death & Society.- The Pragmeme of Accommodation in the Face of Death by Alessandro Capone .- Pragmeme(s) of Sympathy Cards in the Midwestern US by Richard W. Hallett.- Working through One's Loss in Psychotherapy by Johanna Pawelczyk, Adam Mickiewicz.- Dirges, Vagueness and the Pragmeme by  Vahid Parvaresh.- The Pragmeme of Accommodation in Yoruba Death Events by Taiwo Ehineni.- Grief Interactions among Emerging Adults on College Campuses by Mary Alice Varga.- The Discursive Nature of Pre-Funeral Midweek Visits in Sesotho: Implications for Coping with Loss by Konosoang Mabafokeng Sobane.- Part II Death Across Cultures.- To Be Headed for the West, Riding a Crane: Chinese Pragmatic Acts in the Wake of Someone's Passing by Adrian Tien.- Formal and Informal Speech of Mourning: A Contrast between English and Japanese As Represented in Cinema by Hiroko Itakura & John Wakefield.- Cultural Factors in Delivering Eulogistic Expressions as a Pragmeme: A Case Study of the Official Online Electronic Eulogy-Requesting System in Taiwan by Wei-lun Lu.- Specifying the Pragmeme of Commemoration by Gregor Walczak.- Accommodating Language: A Comparative Investigation of the Use of Euphemisms for Death and Dying in Obituaries in English and in German by Philopp Hänggi & Catherine Diederich.- Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Perspectives on the Emotional and Pragmatic Expression of Sympathy in Spanish and English by Jocelly G. Meiners.- The Pragmeme of Condoling in Persian and Its Underlying Cultural Pragmatic Schemas by Tahmineh Tayebi.- Part III Death & Cognition.- 'Bad Death': Developing the Discourse on 'The Good Death' by Michael Hviid Jacobsen.- Sacrificed, Lost or Gave Life for Their Country: Cognitive Analysis of Euphemisms for Death in Bush's and Obama's War Speeches by  Ivana Moritz.- The Fragile Nature of Human Glory: Death and Poetry in Thomas Gray's Elegy Written in the Country Churchyard by Dario Tomasello.- The Acts Performed in Taiwanese Funerals: From Metaphorical Mourning and Praise to Buddhist Teachings by Ming-yu Tseng.- Managing Emotions in the Hospice Discourse: A Discourse-Theoretical Analysis of Hospice Representations of the End of Life in Mass Media and Educational Material for Hospice Workers by Leen Van Brussel & Nico Carpentier.- Death, Dying, and Mourning in Artificial Languages by Allan Libert.