The principal way in which we are social beings, in contrast to being individuals, is through
talk. It is the main way in which we are not alone. The brief listener responses that are the …

Davis, EP, The semasiology of verbs of talking and saying in the High German dialects. Diss.
Chicago 1925. 51 S. Forest, JH de, On the use of Japanese verbs of sayings, speaking …

After a period when contrastive analysis was rejected by many, there has been a revival, in
large measure connected with the new possibilities of contrasting languages using …

[ A left bracket indicates the point at which a current speaker's utterance is overlapped by the
talk of another, which appears on the next line attributed to another speaker. If there is more …

Context is one of those linguistic terms which is constantly used in all kinds of context but
never explained (Asher 1994: 731) In mundane everyday talk and in academic discourse …

I am indebted to many people for their help and support in the writing of this book. Northern
Arizona University released me from teaching for a semester to allow me to finish it in a …

Rudanko says that “to write on Shakespeare today poses many challenges, including that of
familiarity. Whatever one may want to say may have been said before and not only said …

Effective teachers use mnemonic tools or mnemonic triggers to improve the students'
retention of the study material. This article discusses mnemonic triggers from a theoretical …

This paper deals with the semantics of two discourse markers, viz. French en fait (“in fact”)
and Dutch eigenlijk (“actually”), commonly associated with the expression of “opposition” …

Scholars in many disciplines have long been interested in the relationship between social
structure and culture. In particular, the role of actors in creating the different social structures …