Translational communication, in relevance theoretic terms, is interpretive language use,
depending on a pre-existing text. Types of translation that cannot be regarded as interpretive …

English as a global lingua franca interacts with other languages across a wide range of
multilingual contexts. Combining insights from linguistics, education studies, and …

In this book, contributors have been brought together to discuss the role of two major factors
shaping the grammars of different varieties of English (and of other languages) all over the …

Aims and objectives: I review several methods of constructing bridges between structural
linguistic variation in language contact situations and linguistic attitudes and prestige …

This thesis examines language variation and change in a context of minority language
revitalisation. In particular, I concentrate on young fluent speakers of Scottish Gaelic, a …

Second-language varieties of English in the South Pacific have received scant attention,
until now. This monograph offers the first book-length analysis of the sociolinguistics and …

This chapter provides an overview of recent innovative approaches that focus on the
distributional patterns of linguistic phenomena in dialects across different languages. We set …

There is no doubt that the Internet, where English is ubiquitous, has revolutionized our way
of life. Socially, it has opened frontiers to such an extent that nowadays human beings can …

Aims and objectives: The main objective of this study is to find evidence for the Linguistic
Proximity Model, which allows for facilitative and non-facilitative cross-linguistic influence …

The emergence of être comme as a quotative verb in Canadian French is easily construed
as a case of contact-induced change by virtue of its superficial similarity to the rapidly …