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

Acceptance of terminology sanctioned by the Turkish Language Society A study of the use of economic terms in Turkish newspapers

Rechtstexte ubersetzen leicht gemacht? Oder: Wie schnell kann man sich beim Ubersetzen juristischer Texte verlaufen

Combining the semantics of collocations with situation-driven search paths in specialized dictionaries

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 - 1 month 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 - 1 month 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 - 1 month 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 month 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 month 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 month 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 - 4 weeks 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 - 4 weeks 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 - 4 weeks ago

The Old English “Life of Malchus” and Two Vernacular Tales from the Vitas Patrum in MS Cotton Otho C.i: A Translation (Part 2)

Metarepresentation and Decoupling in Northanger Abbey : Part 2

The Poetics and Aesthetics of Ian McEwan's Atonement

American Football, Flags, and "Fun": The Bell Helicopter Armed Forces Bowl and the Rhetorical Production of Militarism - 3 weeks ago

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 - 3 weeks ago

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 - 3 weeks ago

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

Communicating (post)feminisms in discourse - 2 weeks ago

Entitled to consume: postfeminist femininity and a culture of post-critique - 2 weeks ago

The article provides a critical analysis of a postfeminist identity that is emergent in a set of...

'You could take this topic and get a fistfight going': communicating about feminism in interviews - 2 weeks ago

In this article, I analyze discourse from three group interviews to come to a better understanding...

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

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

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

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

The Vernacular Concept of Innateness - 1 month ago

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

Identity, Communication, Inclusion: The Roma and (New) Europe

The Relationship Between Self-Construals, Perceived Face Threats, and Facework During the Pursuit of Influence Goals

Weaving Webs of Faith: Examining Internet Use and Religious Communication Among Chinese Protestant Transmigrants

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

Social Intelligence

Within and Beyond the Nation

Assertions of Expertise in Online Product Reviews - 1 week ago

In online consumer reviews on Web sites such as Epinions, laypeople write and post their evaluations...

The Ethic of Exigence: Information Design, Postmodern Ethics, and the Holocaust - 1 week ago

Compared to ethics in technical writing, ethics in design has received less attention. This lack of...

Special Issue of JBTC: Revisiting the IText Revolution - 1 week ago

Escape from the noun phrase From relative clause to converb and beyond in an Amazonian language

Tracing the origins of Panamanian Congo speech The pathways of regional variation

The Paradox of Grammatical Change. Perspectives from Romance

Editorial

Reading the World: Reconceptualizing Reading Multicultural Literature in the English Language Arts Classroom in a Global World

East meets West: Chinese Students Making Sense of their Cultural Identity in London