Borrowed lexemes developing into discourse markers (DMs) are uniquely valuable research
topics from contact linguistic and grammaticalization perspectives. Although a large number …

Exploring the contentious relationship between trade and labour, this book looks at the
impact of the EU's 'new generation'free trade agreements on workers. Drawing upon …

Perspective-taking is fundamental for language comprehension, including the interpretation
of subjective adjectives (eg, fun, tasty, and amazing). To understand these adjectives, one …

In argumentative writing, writers are expected to use hedged expressions and stance
devices through specific linguistic expressions to convince their proposition effectively. Yet …

Present-day English makes major use of adverbs for the expression of speaker stance,
following what has been described as the adverbialization of speaker attitude. Two …

Motivated reasoning explains how climate change deniers can maintain their beliefs in the
face of disconfirming evidence, suggesting that, compared to believers, the online comments …

In this paper, we analyze the expression of subjective and intersubjective stance through a
particular class of possessive markers in Central Mongolian. Central Mongolian has two …

This article investigates the forms and functions of adjectival intensification in West
Germanic. With corpus data from different discourse types, we challenge claims that German …

The Korean discourse marker sasilsang, literally 'in fact', developed from the Sino-Korean
nouns sasil 'truth, fact'and sang 'top'as a compound. Unlike its original meaning making …

This paper examines the syntactic behavior of Akan ideophonic words. Scholars such as
Dolphyne (1987) and Saah (1995) have dilated on the morphological behaviors of the …