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On the Complexities of Interaction: An Introduction
Everyday social life is tied to the ways in which people talk, interact, and engage in joint activities with each other. This book draws on the...
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Nachhaltigkeit in Media Crisis Discourses
The present paper focuses on linguistic analysis of media crisis discourses presented in the modern German mass media. The approach that we took...
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Linguistic Markers of Affect and the Gender Dimension in Online Hate Speech
Language is not only a tool for information transfer but also a vehicle of the producer’s subjectivity which adds to the persuasive power of the...
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Introduction—Contextualisation Matters
Chapter one sets the scene for this pivot publication. In addition to giving an outline of the monograph’s research objectives and presenting an...
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A Sociocultural Perspective on English Private Tutoring in South Korea in the Last Two Decades: A Critical Review
South Korea is (in)famous for its citizens’ excessive investment in English education—a phenomenon that is frequently referred to as ‘English fever’....
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On “Science-Literature-Art” in Chinese Children’s Literature
As a modern academic neologism, “science-literature-art” is an important component of Chinese children’s literature. Looking back on the process of...
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The Multimedia Corpus of Russian Ironic Speech for Phonetic Analysis
This paper presents a detailed description of the multimedia corpus that was built for the phonetic analysis of Russian ironic speech. The corpus was...
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Humour
This chapter presents what is arguably the first review of the linguistics of humour studies for stylisticians. We explain how ambiguity,...
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Semiotics, Language and Law: The Linguistic Turn in Jurisprudence
Law and language are closely related. In the latter half of twentieth century, with the development of philosophy studies, western jurisprudence...
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Declarative, Exclamatory, Interrogative and Imperative Sentences
According to the purpose or mood of expression, sentences can be divided into four types: declarative (or statement), exclamatory, interrogative and...
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The Sinicization of Buddhist Scriptural Language
Soon after Buddhism was introduced to China during the Eastern and Western Han, a great number of Buddhist scriptures were translated into Chinese...
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Pronominal Variation in Spoken Portuguese in “Rurban” Communities: Reflections on Evaluation, Prestige, and Stigma
Social evaluation of linguistic forms is determinant of the fate of these forms in the linguistic scenario of a community. In this chapter we aim to...
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Introduction: Confluence, Connections and a Call to Action in Early English Education
The introductory chapter highlights the benefits for early English language learning of making connections to wider educational approaches and...
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The relation between reading and externalizing behavior: a correlational meta-analysis
Reading proficiency is important because it has life-long consequences and influences success in other academic areas. Many students with behavior...
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The Sinicization of Buddhist Scriptural Language
Soon after Buddhism was introduced to China during the Eastern and Western Han, a great number of Buddhist scriptures were translated into Chinese...
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Construction of Amharic information retrieval resources and corpora
The development of information retrieval systems and natural language processing tools has been made possible for many natural languages because of...
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Why the Morphosyntax/Semantics Interface Matters for Nouns
Although the category of nouns, or “substantives” (for a long time, the word “noun” was used for a broader category that included more subparts of...
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The Sense of the Sense of Smell in Virginia Woolf’s Flush
In her novella Flush, Virginia Woolf narrates the life of Elizabeth Barrett’s dog and deals with several issues central to her work, such as...
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Introduction
This introductory chapter first elaborates on the background, scope, and rationale. It then reviews the existing literature related to immigrants’...
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Chinese Language’s Role in Multiple Dimensions of Identity
Chapter 6 examines the identity issues of children and adolescents. Based on analyses of Chinese Australian children’s motivations to learn Chinese,...