Words in human language interact in sentences in non-random ways, and allow humans to construct an astronomic variety of sentences from a limited number of discrete units. This construction process is extremely fast and robust. The co-occurrence of words
Ordinary in prose translation, rhythm is usually not a matter of great concern for the translator. Unlike poetry, with its comparatively rigid form, prose, by its very nature, permits a free form fluidity, giving the translator a certain kind of carte bla
This article focuses on technical translation and the demands imposed on subject-field expert translators who must decide how they can reconcile the linguistic constraints imposed by a particular language with the communicative expectations found in a par
The mathematical discourse is not possible without a fertile use of natural language. Its texts are a combination symbols, natural language, diagrams and so on. To coherently read these texts is to be involved in the activity of translation. Applied mathe
One of the central problems in creole studies is the nature of the processes that are involved in creolization. This paper investigates this issue with regard to the restructuring of the syllable in the genesis of one English-based creole, Sranan. In the
Among the Indo-European languages with mobile stress, the Slavic languages are distinguished by possessing, in addition to accented and unaccented morphemes, a class of post-accenting morphemes, whose cognates in the other IE languages are accented. The p
This article investigates the different rates at which young speakers of French appear to innovate in the use of adjectives of approval and disapproval. The principal research issues examined here are twofold: (i) the validity of the 'Pollyanna Principle
A sublanguage is a subset of a natural language such as the English language. Sublanguages tend to emerge gradually through the use of a language in various fields by specialists in those fields. Some such sublanguages are the 'language of biophysics' a
In this case study, we use conversational data from the Switchboard corpus to investigate the functional opposition between two pragmatically specialized constructions of English: Topicalization and Left-Dislocation. Specifically, we use distributional tr
Prosodic cues are often informative in speech perception; similar acoustic features distinguish music performances. Three experiments addressed the role of prosodic cues in memory for music. In Experiment 1. musically trained and untrained listeners were
This essay proposes a tripartite metaperspective of discourse study: discourse may be studied as utterance, social interaction, or social context. Once established, the metaperspective is used to survey uses and critiques of Grice's Cooperative Principle
Linguistic encoding is seen as playing a necessary but not solely sufficient role in speaker meaning by philosophers of Ordinary Language, such as Grice and Strawson. Despite well-rehearsed problems with some of Grice's and Strawson's specific theories,
Participants read either a metaphorical prime sentence, such as That defense lawyer is a shark, or a baseline-prime sentence. The baseline-prime sentence was literally meaningful in Experiment 1 (e. g., That large hammer-head is a shark), nonsensical in E
Artifacts, i.e., the material side of culture, and their relevance: for intercultural interactions rarely caught the attention of interculturalists. This may be partly due to the scholarly traditions of the involved disciplines (except for cultural anthro
We examined the relationship between spatial language and spatial memory by comparing native English, Japanese, and Korean speakers' naming of spatial locations and their spatial memory for the same set of locations. We focused on two kinds of spatial or