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]
Evidentiality refers to the grammatical marking of the source of evidence for a proposition; mirativity refers to the marking of a proposition as representing information which is new to the speaker. Mirativity has sometimes been thought of as part of the
This paper discusses the conditions for the grammaticalization of evidentiality in different languages, with special attention to the languages of South Eastern Europe and the Middle East. In these languages, evidentially marked discourse is opposed to ne
In order to show students the interdisciplinary relevance of language study and to encourage non language majors to study abroad in programs where English is not the principal language of instruction, we propose the development of interdisciplinary short-
This article examines how speech representation in Japanese journalistic discourse reflects and reproduces the social structure in Japan and the identity of the Imperial Family. Japanese newspapers tend strongly to quote the Imperial Family verbatim, whic
The first half of this article offers an assessment of critical discourse analysis, as developed since the 1980s and understood at the time in terms of a much-needed departure from predominantly descriptive modes of linguistic enquiry, which prevented an
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