Pronoun usage's psychological underpinning and behavioral consequence have fascinated
researchers, with much research attention paid to second-person pronouns like “you,”“your,” …

Verbal aspect is one of three major verbal categories of languages of the world, the other
two being tense (see Chapter 20) and modality (see Chapter 21). The commonly accepted …

While ritual is often associated with phenomena such as ceremonies, cursing and etiquette,
it actually encompasses something much more important: it includes all instances of …

Translation practice is a code interaction situation (Schäffner and Adab 1997; Cronin 2003;
Heine and Kuteva 2005; House 2006), which can bring about change in target linguistic …

In this paper, we examine the ways in which aggression may be escalated during
mediatised rites of aggression. We argue that Victor Turner's concept of 'rite of …

This issue focuses on a little-studied aspect of (inter) subjectivity (S/IS) in language: the
expression of S/IS in different registers. In the introduction, we overview the background and …

In this paper, we first present a representation of message flows and their contents on
Twitter, then an instrumented methodology to describe and analyze these flows and their …

Construir un objeto no es lo mismo que conocerlo. Es decir, una cosa es el «objeto real» y
otra el «objeto de conocimiento». La ideología dominante identifica su «objeto de estudio» …

Authors such as Tyler Schnoebelen (on page 12 of his study Emotions are Relational:
Positioning and the Use of Affective Linguistic Resources), suggest that in some languages …

Subjectivity and intersubjectivity are at the core of any interaction between people, including
artistic communication. Subjectivity refers to the fact that speakers and writers, authors, and …