This paper investigates vagueness in the context of classroom discourse, adopting a cross-cultural and corpus-based perspective. In this paper, ‘culture’ is not viewed as a... Read More

Linguistic research on pragmatic markers has proved that their role is essential in communication as human language is constrained both socially and culturally (Fetzer &... Read More

Research on intercultural communication through English as a lingua franca (ELF) tends to employ form-to-function methodologies for corpus-based pragmatic analyses. These take specific linguistic forms... Read More

In order to use language for communication effectively, not only interlinguistic but also intercultural pragmatic competences are needed. However, various linguistic and cultural communities use... Read More

The study examines the linguistic peculiarities embedded within informational messages related to COVID-19. This research, based on a sample of public signs and posters intended... Read More

Exclamatives have been widely studied, both from a monolingual and crosslinguistic perspective and in European and non-European languages. The translation of exclamatives, however, has received... Read More

From a cultural linguistic point of view, individual languages encapsulate the culture of their speech community and thus a comparative analysis of languages helps us... Read More

This study takes an approach to intercultural communication through the lens of fictional pragmatics (cf. Locher et al., 2023; Locher & Jucker, 2017), i.e., focuses... Read More