Voices on immigration: A stance analysis of opinion articles in Russian-speaking newspapers
In the current context, immigration stands out as a prominent and widely debated issue in all major European newspapers, including Russian ones. This study aims... Read More
La autoimagen en el acto de habla de disculpa: un estudio contrastivo del español mexicano y peninsular
En las últimas décadas, el acto de disculpa ha generado mucho interés, lo cual se traduce en abundantes publicaciones. La atracción hacia esta categoría se... Read More
“Ese que…hacía cuánto no podía decirte” [“It’s just that… for how long she’s not been able to tell you”]: Relational accounts in negotiations of responsibility during family talk in Spanish
Attributions and negotiations of blame involve various interactional practices (e.g, accusations, denials, accounts) that are contingent on the interactants’ identities (e.g., mother-daughter) and reflect their... Read More
Sibling disputes as a socialisation site for pragmatic, relational and moral aspects of ‘sharing’
Socialising children into the responsibilities, rights and expectations as relevant to the categorial, relational, pragmatic and moral work is a crucial aspect of family talk.... Read More
Managing power relations in interaction: Negotiations of (relational) entitlements and the ‘(in)appropriateness’ in Chinese-Australian families
Relationships between family members are continually shaped through language use during various family activities. The interactionally achieved meanings and actions convey implicit and explicit messages... Read More
Exploring compliments and compliment responses formulated by L1 and L2 speakers of English
Adapting Spencer-Oatey, Ng, and Dong’s (2008) and Ren and Gao’s (2012) questionnaires, this study investigates how its participants, L1 speakers of English and L2 learners... Read More
Conversational routines in Jane Austen’s “Pride and Prejudice” and across lingua-cultures
Conversation plays a central role in Jane Austen’s novels and in Pride and Prejudice (1813) in particular. The novel paints a vivid picture of Georgian... Read More
Contacts of dialects of the Georgian language with minority languages in Georgia
In multilingual Georgia, Georgian as the state language influences minority languages, but in those regions where dialects of Georgian and minority languages are in contact,... Read More
On the social meanings of the use of explicatures or lack thereof
The term ‘explicatures’ pertains to the inferential developments made in the explicit aspect of utterances with the objective of attaining a greater degree of clarity (Sperber & Wilson, 1986).... Read More
Enriching honorific research with honorific phenomena: Insights from Thai interaction
A significant contribution to honorific research emerges from investigations into the complexities of honorific forms, as well as the extensive sociopragmatic characterizations of honorific systems... Read More