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Éxito (Success)
This chapter explores how éxito (success) is defined and achieved collectively in certain Latinx communities through the pursuit of ideals such as...
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Linguistic Insecurity and Linguistic Imperialism: Resuscitating Renaissance ‘Re-Linguiscism’ in Salman Rushdie’s The Enchantress of Florence
Salman Rushdie’s novel, The Enchantress of Florence, received diametric reactions on either side of the Atlantic in the popular, albeit well-heeled,...
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Multilingual Mietshaus: Language (Hi)stories at Mareschstraße 74
This chapter takes its title from the fictitious address of the real building in which the research participants live or work. The building was...
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Justice
This chapter argues that there is a link between hegemony and the ethical, the normative being presented in ethical terms and unity being the...
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Introduction: Languages in Literature
Monolingualism and Linguistic Exhibitionism in Fiction examines the seemingly increasing presence of multilingualism in the domain of English...
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The Style and Timbre of Everyday Speech
It may seem odd and bewildering, but everyday speech is intended neither to teach, nor to inform, neither to impress, nor to fantasize, neither to...
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Emailing Requests to International Researchers: The Construction of Identity by Chinese EFL Graduate Students
While email communication has received a lot of scholastic attention and its relevance to second language acquisition has been explored to some...
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The Metapragmatics of Direct Utterances
This chapter revisits the analysis of the dimension of “directness” in language use as theorized within a socio-pragmatic perspective and as...
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Revisiting Metapragmatics: ‘What Are We Talking About?’
In his discussion of metatheoretical issues in linguistics, Mey (Pragmatics. An introduction. Blackwell, Oxford, p 175, 1993) raises the following...
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New Polities and New Nation Building
The minorities that are examples of successful linguistic renaissance are often territorial minorities large enough and cohesive enough to have...
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A Case Study of Two Interpreters: **a Wenyun and Yan Jiarui
This chapter takes a close look at two interpreters, **a Wenyun and Yan Jiarui, and provides more detailed and finely textured qualitative...
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Economic Exchange and Business Language in the Ancient World: An Exploratory Review
There is a general consensus among scholars (e.g. Janssens et al., 2004; Peltokorpi, 2007; López-Duarte and Vidal-Suárez, 2010, p. 578; Holden and...
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Fritz and Tommy
The war between ‘Fritz’ and ‘Tommy’ — respectively German and British soldiers1 — commenced once the British Expeditionary Force, landing in France...
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War and Its Aftermath
At first, the main obstacle to Esperanto’s dissemination was simply doubt about its survival. What Zamenhof offered to the world was only one of the...
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A Critical Look at the Description of Speech Acts
John Searle says that the aim of studying the philosophy of language, which the area of speech acts originally fell under, concerns universality:...
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The lexicon of the male sex worker
This chapter considers metaphoric clustering in a very specific type of lexis known as “code.” This is the underground language of the New Zealand...
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Translation, Cultural Politics, and Poetic Form: A Comparative Study of the Translation of Modernist Poetry in Les Contemporains (1932–35) and Literary Currents (1956–59)
For modern Chinese poetry, or poetry written in vernacular Chinese, 1920 is a year of great significance. In this year, Hu Shi, one of the major...
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Passport through the Terror
Between September 1791 and 1792, the political complexion of the Revolution had greatly changed. The guarded optimism Sicard had expressed to Laffon...
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Unamuno’s Views on Language: A Critical Assessment
Unamuno was trained as a philologist and held two language-related Chairs at the University of Salamanca. He not only devoted many of his essays to...