Published in Cognitive Linguistics
Brdar and Brdar-Szabó (this volume) offer a critique of Janda (2011). Janda (2011) found that the same cognitive strategy that facilitates metonymy, namely use of a conceptual source to access a target, can also be invoked in many patterns of affixal word-formation. In other words, many cases of word-formation appear to be motivated by metonymic as...
Published in Multilingua
This article presents an analysis and interpretation of language policy documents from eight Swedish universities with regard to intertextuality, authorship and content analysis of the notions of language practices and English as a lingua franca (ELF). The analysis is then linked to Spolsky’s framework of language policy, namely language practices,...
Published in Kritikon Litterarum
Published in Kritikon Litterarum
Published in Kritikon Litterarum
Published in Lodz Papers in Pragmatics
The main goal of this study was to identify factors motivating pragmatic transfer in advanced learners of English. Based on a cross-cultural comparison of requesting behavior between Koreans and Americans, this study determined the impact of individual subjective motives on pragmatic language choice. Two different groups of subjects participated in...
Published in Lodz Papers in Pragmatics
Published in International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching
This study examines the development of pragmatic competence among 48 first-year students in an English-medium college in Japan. The students were assessed on their ability to express opinions appropriately in formal and informal situations on three occasions during one academic year. Qualitative data on their sociocultural experiences were collecte...
Published in Kritikon Litterarum
Published in Kritikon Litterarum
