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. .