In this paper, we draw on data from world languages teachers (English, Spanish and French, in particular) to explore and unpack binaries encountered i... [more]
Decades of research has investigated the heterogeneity of English among speakers of various linguistic and cultural backgrounds, but there still remai... [more]
In this article the treatment of context in two schools of contemporary discourse analysis - Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) and Conversation Analysis (CA) - is discussed. Starting from the observation that critical trends in discourse analysis identify
A review of the illustrated editions of any text is likely top reveal differences as well as similarities, not only in terms of style and methods of production, but also in terms of the choices made by each illustrator. This article considers how the illu
Texts that are intertextually and intervisually rich and highly culture-specific are often deemed to be untranslatable as they are too specifically set in a particular locale. Yet,some intertextual texts, such as Janet and Allan Ahlberg's Jolly Postman b
This paper argues that the Turing test is based on a fixed and de-contextualized view of communicative competence. According to this view, a machine that passes the test will be able to communicate effectively in a variety of other situations. But the de-
Differences between male and female speakers have been explored by linguists without their arriving at any general agreement. Female speakers are viewed differently by different theorists. The questions that women have of themselves and others have also b
In this paper, the author tries to investigate and evaluate the data-gathering methods of written DCTs, oral DCTs, field notes, and recorded conversations. A large quantity of data are collected involving the use of the two speech acts of compliments and
This paper explores the nature of the talk show as a particular instance of broadcast discourse, which is envisaged both as a media product and as an ongoing talk-oriented process. The analysis focuses on the discursive features of the talk show, regarded
The addition of 'actually' operators to modal languages allows us to capture important inferential behaviours which cannot be adequately captures in logics formulated in simpler languages. Previous work on modal logics containing 'actually' operators
We consider the problem of axiomatizing various natural 'successor' logics for 2-dimensional integral spacetime. We provide axiomatizations in monomodal and multimodal languages, and prove completeness theorems. We also establish that the irreflexive su
Language is commonly regarded as an exclusively human attribute and the possession of the word (logos) has long served to demarcate culture from nature. This is often taken to imply that nature is incapable of meaningful expression, that any meaning it ac
Open languages are the new class of formal languages proposed by the author. A language of this class combines the grammar of an object-oriented programming language with the universality of a natural language. The open language allows the creation of a m
The ordinary discourse of parents, and to a lesser degree young children, includes a surprising amount of attention to language. The dinner table conversations of 22 middle class families, each with a child between 2 and 51/2 years of age, were recorded.
This study concerns names of nets on the Ordenanzas de los cordoneros (1482) of Seville. The author's aim is to compare this short hand-written text with the printed Recopilacion de las Ordenancas of Seville (1527), the Ordenancas (1632) and the manuscri
Our use of language depends upon two capacities: a mental lexicon of memorized words and a mental grammar of rules that underlie the sequential and hierarchical composition of lexical forms into predictably structured larger words, phrases, and sentences.
Responding to a compliment poses a dilemma for speakers (Pomerantz, 1978) because they have to balance two diametrically conflicting conversational principles: to agree with one's conversational coparticipants and to avoid self-praise (Herbert, 1989). Fa