Thulfiqar H. Altahmazi is an Asst. Prof. at Mustansiriyah University. He received his Ph.D. from The University of Leicester. His research interests include applied linguistics; pragmatics, (interactional) sociolinguistics, and (critical) discourse analysis. His research has appeared in books and edited volumes published by Routledge; Springer; and Dijlah University Publishing, as well as in scholarly journals such as Journal of Pragmatics; Discourse & Society; Journal of Politeness Research; Discourse, Context & Media; Language, Aggression & Conflict; Lingua; Internet Pragmatics.