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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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 3:‘The Place Near The Thing Where We Went That Time’: An Inferential Approach to Pragmatic Stylistics (Billy Clark)Adrian Mole’s Saga or an Instance of Common Readers’ Emotional Involvement with Satire? (Alcina de Sousa)Biblical Poetic Texts: Ideology on the Background of FSP Analysis (Martin Adam)Interfaces in Stylistics: Aspects of Style in Translation (Gabriela Missikova)Body as a principle of space organization and interpretation (Viktor Krupa)The Choice of Context Yielding the Joys of Cortex: Relevance and Pragmatic Enrichment for the Lexicon (Laszlo I. Komlosi)Bilingual Lexicography and the Pragmatic Approach (Edita Hornackova Klapicova)Negotiation of Meaning in Spoken Interaction (Renata Povolna)The Application of Hahn’s (2007) Ten Commandments of Intercultural Communication in Business Interaction (Alena Kacmarova)Where Translation meets Invention: Textual and Contextual Mismatches in bringing Slovak Realist Martin Kukucin into English (Mark W. Lencho)How Languages Pattern Modes of Address Differently A Direct Comparison of the English and German Address System with R Read more...
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Communicating by speech is seemingly one of the most natural activities for humans. However, despite its apparent obviousness and ease, speech production is a very complex activity with multiple levels of organization involved with transforming cognitive intent into a meaningful sequence of sounds. This book establishes a connection between the physiology of speech and linguistics, and provides a detailed account of speech production processes, indicating how various languages of the world make use of human anthropophonic capacities. The book also offers new insights into the possible ways in which articulatory-based phonetics and phonology might be unified, making it essential reading matter for anyone involved in this field. Numerous illustrations are included which enhance the reader’s understanding. Read more...
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