Browsing Research in Language (2012) vol.10 nr 3 by Issue Date
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Exploring Male and Female Voices through Epistemic Modality and Evidentiality in Some Modern English Travel Texts on the Canaries
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2012-11-06)This article describes authorial voice through evidential and epistemic sentential devices in a corpus of 19th and early 20th century travel texts. The corpus contains four works written by female travellers and the other ... -
Tentative Reference Acts? ‘Recognitional Demonstratives’ as Means of Suggesting Mutual Knowledge – or Overriding a Lack of It
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2012-11-06)In an explorative study on German oral corpus data we investigate recognitional use of proximal demonstratives as a means of explicit speaker-hearer interaction shaping the discourse structure. We show that recognitionals ... -
Compliments and Refusals in Poland and England
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2012-11-06)There are significant cross-cultural differences in the way compliments and refusals are made and responded to. The investigation of these speech acts touches on some interesting issues for pragmatic theory: the relation ... -
Metapragmatic Evaluation of Verbal Irony by Speakers of Russian and American English
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2012-11-06)The paper discusses metapragmatic assessment of verbal irony by speakers of Russian and American English. The research combines ideas from metapragmatics, folk linguistics and corpus linguistics. Empirical data are drawn ... -
Die kleine House-Apotheke: Reception of the American, German and Polish Gregory House and Varied Translations of the Pronoun you
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2012-11-06)Two audiovisual translations of the American hit medical drama, House M.D., German dubbing and Polish voiceover, and the analysis of translation strategies of the pronominal form of address you are the point of departure ... -
What is Said and Indirect Speech Reports
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2012-11-06)In their Insensitive Semantics (2005) Cappelen and Lepore argue for the Controversial Aspect (CA) which is a part of their Speech Act Pluralism and which says that speakers don’t have privileged access to what they say. ... -
Cognitive and Pragmatic Perspectives on Speech Actions. Editorial to Ril 10.3
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2012-11-06)