Language Matters

Semantic niches and analogy in word formation Evidence from contrastive linguistics

Discourse style and themerheme progression in biomedical research article discussions A corpus-based contrastive study of translational and non-translational Spanish

Talking about Motion: a Crosslinguistic Investigation of Lexicalization Patterns

Teaching and learning terminology: New strategies and methods

Comment mettre la main a la pate en terminologie

Terminological competence in translation

Developing a depersonalized stance through linguistic means in typologically different languages: Written expository discourse

Literacy predictors and early reading and spelling skills as a factor of orthography: Cross-linguistic evidence

Can secondary pupils train decoding skills?: An empirical study on phonological reading errors

Historical sociopragmatics: An introduction

The sociopragmatics of a lovers' spat: The case of the eighteenth-century courtship letters of Mary Pierrepont and Edward Wortley

Variation and change in patterns of self-reference in early English correspondence

In memory of Tim Johns

The BE06 Corpus of British English and recent language change

"I entirely understand" is a Blairism: The methodology of identifying idiolectal collocations

Corpus and Context. Investigating Pragmatic Functions in Spoken Discourse

Arguing within an institutional hierarchy: how argumentative talk and interlocutors' embodied practices preserve a superior--subordinate relationship - 4 weeks ago

This article studies an argument that took place in an institutional setting and specifies six...

One-sided laughter in academic presentations: a small-scale investigation - 4 weeks ago

This investigation focuses on analysing one-sided laughter (i.e. laughter initiated by the speaker...

'A bit of common ground': personalisation and the use of shared knowledge in interactions between people with learning disabilities and their personal assistants - 4 weeks ago

Personalisation is the new mantra in social care; this article focuses on how personalisation can be...

Discourse and striving for power: an analysis of Barisan Nasional's 2004 Malaysian general election manifesto - 1 week ago

This study analyses the political party of Barisan Nasional's victory in the llth Malaysian general...

'Excusing the inexcusable': justifying injustice in Nelson's Sorry speech - 1 week ago

Political discourses reflect and shape public constructions of past and present events, and social...

Language and ideology: gender stereotypes of female and male artists in Taiwanese tabloids - 1 week ago

This study adopts the Critical Discourse Analysis approach in order to examine gender stereotypes in...

Editorial

The structure and function of intonational paragraphs in native and nonnative speaker instructional discourse

Attending to word-stress while learning new vocabulary

Measuring rates of word-final nasal velarization: The effect of dialect contact on in-group and out-group exchanges1 - 3 days ago

Three Salvadoran corpora were used to analyze word-final nasal variation in a situation of dialect...

/r/ and the construction of place identity on New York City's Lower East Side1 - 3 days ago

This paper argues that a group of white residents on the Lower East Side of Manhattan use a New York...

Code-switching and borrowing in Irish1 - 3 days ago

The Old English “Life of Malchus” and Two Vernacular Tales from the Vitas Patrum in MS Cotton Otho C.i: A Translation (Part 1) - 1 month ago

“Love's Bitter Mystery”: Stephen Dedalus, Drowning, and the Burden of Guilt in Ulysses - 1 month ago

Current Literature 2007. New Writing: Poetry - 1 month ago

American Football, Flags, and "Fun": The Bell Helicopter Armed Forces Bowl and the Rhetorical Production of Militarism - yesterday

The Armed Forces Bowl provides a troubling integration of commercial sport and the American culture...

Foiling the Intellectuals: Gender, Identity Framing, and the Rhetoric of the Kill in Conservative Hate Mail - yesterday

This article introduces the concept of identity framing by foil. Characteristics of this...

The Power of Beauty in Reality Plastic Surgery Shows: Romance, Career, and Happiness - yesterday

This study explores the dominant meanings of plastic surgery television programs via utilizing...

The Video Game Experience as "True" Identification: A Theory of Enjoyable Alterations of Players' Self-Perception - 4 weeks ago

This article introduces an explication of video game players' identification with a game character...

Theorizing Flow and Media Enjoyment as Cognitive Synchronization of Attentional and Reward Networks - 4 weeks ago

This article reconceptualizes the psychological concept of "flow" as it pertains to media...

Communication as a Dynamical Self-Sustaining System: The Importance of Time-Scales and Nested Context - 4 weeks ago

This article examines the utility of modeling communication as dynamic nesting of self-sustaining...

Wal-Mart's presentation to the community: discursive practices in mitigating risk, limiting public discussion, and developing a relationship - 3 months ago

This study examines Wal-Mart representatives' presentation to the community on their site plan and...

Organizational decision-making, discourse, and power: integrating across contexts and scales - 3 months ago

Research has downplayed the complex discursive processes and practices through which decisions are...

Book review: MARY P. SHERIDAN-RABIDEAU, Girls, Feminism, and Grassroots Literacies: Activism in the GirlZone. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2008, xii + 204 pp - 3 months ago

Positive Illusions, Perceived Control and the Free Will Debate - 1 week ago

It is a common assumption among both philosophers and psychologists that having accurate beliefs...

The Meaning of 'Most': Semantics, Numerosity and Psychology - 1 week ago

The meaning of 'most' can be described in many ways. We offer a framework for distinguishing...

The Vernacular Concept of Innateness - 1 week ago

The proposal that the concept of innateness expresses a 'folk biological' theory of the 'inner...

Weaving Webs of Faith: Examining Internet Use and Religious Communication Among Chinese Protestant Transmigrants - 3 months ago

Worlds Apart: The Barrier Between East and West - 3 months ago

White America's Construction of Black Bodies: The Case of Ron Artest as a Model of Covert Racial Ideology in the NBA's Discourse - 6 months ago

Teaching Europeans how to be Europeans

Beyond the Bosphorus? Comparing public discourses on Turkey's EU application in the German, French and British quality press

Blair speeches in a polyphonic perspective NOTs and BUTs in visions on Europe

Introduction - 3 months ago

Social Intelligence - 3 months ago

Within and Beyond the Nation - 3 months ago

Features of Success in Engineering Design Presentations: A Call for Relational Genre Knowledge - 2 months ago

This study explores design presentations that were graded by engineering faculty in order to assess...

Understanding Public Policy Development as a Technological Process - 2 months ago

This article discusses public policy writing as a genre of technical communication and, specifically...

Book Review: Book Review Editor: Jeffrey Jablonski, University of Nevada, Las Vegas: Zachry, Mark, and Thralls, Charlotte (Eds.). (2007). Communicative Practices in Workplaces and the Professions: Cultural Perspectives on the Regulation of Discourse and Organizations. Amityville, NY: Baywood. 280 pages - 2 months ago

Inhibited sound change An evolutionary approach to lexical competition

Pronominal borrowing among the Maya

The Regional Diversification of Latin 200 BC-AD 600

Editorial - 2 months ago

Reading the World: Reconceptualizing Reading Multicultural Literature in the English Language Arts Classroom in a Global World - 2 months ago

East meets West: Chinese Students Making Sense of their Cultural Identity in London - 2 months ago