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Adolescent reading and math skills and self-concept beliefs as predictors of age 20 emotional well-being
This study examines longitudinal associations among reading skills, math skills and emotional well-being in a Finnish sample (n = 586) followed from...
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Being pragmatic about biscuits
In this paper we argue for a unified semantics for hypothetical conditionals, hc s, e.g. if it rains, we’ll cancel the picnic , and biscuit...
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Being Silent About the Truth: Narrative Ethics in Mats Wahl’s I ballong över Stilla havet
Lying and deceiving are prominent topics in ethical narration. This has to do with an often absolutist stance against lying that shapes a large part...
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On Mediating and Being Mediated: Experiences of Harmony and Contention
The book chapterbook chapters, a relatively under-researched genregenre when compared to the research article, provides the main focus for this...
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Honouring Our War Heroes or Honouring War? Well-being in Contemporary Australian War Fiction for Children and Adolescents
War, like other stressful situations and experiences, entails a threat to one’s subjective well-being, and war fiction for children represents this...
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‘Ways of Being’ Online: The Case of an Ultrarunning Group
This chapter is based on the research procedures presented and discussed in the previous chapter. In this chapter, I present my findings from Phase...
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What’s wrong with truth-conditional accounts of slurs
The aim of this paper is to provide arguments based on linguistic evidence that discard a truth-conditional analysis of slurs (TCA) and pave the way...
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Absolute gradable adjectives and loose talk
Kennedy (Linguist Philos 30:1–45, 2007) forcefully proposes what is now a widely assumed semantics for absolute gradable adjectives. On this...
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Still going strong
In “ Must ...stay ...strong!” (von Fintel and Gillies in Nat Lang Semant 18:351–383, 2010. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11050-010-9058-2 ), we set out to...
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You Hoboken! Semantics of an expressive label maker
‘You bastard’ is insulting because ‘bastard’ is an expletive, but what’s wrong with ‘You Hoboken’ or ‘You big wet noodle’? This paper explores the...
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Grammar tests, de facto policy and pedagogical coercion in England’s primary schools
Since their introduction by the Conservative government in 2013, primary school children in England have taken a mandated grammar, punctuation and...
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Epistemic modality in upper elementary students’ argument writing: a feature of argumentation
Language is essential for making meaning in written communication, and argument writing is a key genre of schooling to which language contributes...
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Architecture and Life
The last chapter draws a conclusion, arguing how the position on space presented in the fifth chapter, and a processual design approach (that...
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Embodied Noticings as Repair Initiations: On Multiactivity in Choir Rehearsals
This chapter presents a conversation analytic study of a collection of 79 cases where a singer of a choir visibly orients to something in the singing...
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Exploring the Role of Corporate Communication Professionals in Navigating the New Media Landscape
The advent of new media technology has brought drastic changes to the way in which corporate communications are carried out. Traditionally, corporate...
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Complicated Mixtures: Repurposing the Chthulucene’s Troublesome Trash in Toy Story 4
In a world plagued by plastic pollution (among other environmental threats), children’s stories dedicated to the positive role of plastic toys in...
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Assessing linguistic generalisation in language models: a dataset for Brazilian Portuguese
Much recent effort has been devoted to creating large-scale language models. Nowadays, the most prominent approaches are based on deep neural...
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Shakespeare in the “Shoe” Novels of Noel Streatfeild
This article situates Noel Streatfeild’s career novels of the mid twentieth century within the long history of Shakespeare for children, showing that...
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Who’s afraid of literary post-editing? Performances and Reflections of Student Translators
Despite the advances in the automation of translation processes, several discourses insist that there is still a privileged status for the...
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Ideologies of Colonial-Apartheid Linguistic Order
7de Laan uses primarily Afrikaans and English, with indigenous languages used instantly; My Desire is dubbed from Hindi to English only. The chapter...