Topics in linguistics is an international scientific magazine published by UKF in Slovakia and Its target readers are those who are interested in area of linguists and scientists of intercultural communication, critical discourse analysis, pragmatics and sociolinguistics. There are several issues, each oriented on different aspect of linguistics.List of topics included in Issue 4:Implicatures in Discourse Space or Grice’s Rationality ReconsideredMetaphor in Translation“Words Must Be Our Force”: Exploring Modality Markers in Political SpeechesPragmatics (through) Corpora (in) Cultures: An Empirical Comparison of Academic WritingCritical Discourse Analysis of Barack Obama’s Inaugural AddressConjunctive Adverbials in English Academic Prose – Their Features and Use by Men and Women AuthorsNaming Strategies in Newspaper Discourse: Means of Communicating Identity of the Participants to the ReaderSyntactic Strategies in Written DiscourseAcquiring Pragmatic Competence in a Foreign Language – Mastering Dispreferred Speech ActsPrevalent Approaches in Modern Brand Names and Preliminary Classification of BrandsExpressing Imprecision in Research Article Introductions: Formal and Semantic AnalysisPersuasive Features in Academic WritingThe Illocutionary Force: Over-coding and Under-coding in advertising slogansHinojosa’s Self-Translation of Dear Rafe into North-American Culture: Language Use as a Mirror of the Social Construction of the Chicano IdentityThe Read more...
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