The article investigates emotional exchanges as manifestations of power through body language. Subtle well obvious displays emotion are related to the macro political renegotiation relations taking place out court in light case. testimonies women trials investigating honour-related crimes include contempt, friendly intimacy, anger and resignation, each connecting sociology emotions theories pri...

Learning a foreign language in classroom setting can be veritably miserable experience. Nowhere is this better described than Buddenbrooks, where Thomas Mann dissects his young protagonist’s feeling of negative anticipation before class, with its attendant physical and behavioural symptomatology. Skipping forward eight decades, essay gives brief overview how applied linguists started using the ...

Sign languages have been proven to be natural languages, as capable of expressing human thoughts and emotions as traditional (spoken) languages are. The distinct visual and spatial nature of sign languages makes it difficult to develop an interfacing system as a communication medium platform for sign language users. This dissertation targets this problem by presenting some explorations in the a...