According to Gibbs (2006) “there is still insufficient attention paid to the exact ways that cultural beliefs shape both people’s understandings of their embodied experiences and the conceptual metaphors which arise from these experiences.” For example, the conceptual metaphor EMOTIONS ARE FLUIDS WITHIN THE BODY seems to underlie a wide variety of metaphorical expressions used by speakers from ...

The challenge of publishing internationally for non-native English speakers (NNESs) is substantial, although there are conflicting accounts as to how NNES-authored texts fare in English-medium journals and the nature of the criticism levied at these texts. Collaborators from a wide variety of backgrounds and skill sets may contribute to these texts, and the aspects they focus on differ based on...


 Jelen tanulmány célja a nyelvi többközpontúság nyelvoktatásban betöltött szerepének vizsgálata, különös tekintettel az angol és német mint idegen nyelvek tanítására. Jelen, elméleti orientációjú munka komparatív szemszögből értelmezi rendszerezi már meglévő kutatási eredményeket, kísérletet tesz arra, hogy Clyne (1992) többközpontú modelljét Kachru World Englishes modelljének koncentriku...

The linguistic classiŽ cation of English speakers from outer-circle countries, such as India, Malaysia, and Singapore, is often ambiguous because the Englishes they speak are considered different from interlanguages yet are not considered native varieties. This study investigates whether outer-circle speakers can be viewed as equivalent to speakers of mother-tongue varieties in terms of their o...

I explore here the extent to which a number of linguistic innovations, characteristic of the Englishes of the South-East of England, have diffused to a rural area to the north-west of East Anglia, known as the Fens. In doing so, I assess whether diffusion models in the literature to date adequately account for the outcomes of diffusion, as demonstrated in the casual speech of 18 adolescents fro...

This research is focused on the automatic detection of one of the fundamental elements of Brazil’s prosody model, the tone unit. We compared the performance of using silent pause duration alone to delimit tone units and using relative pitch resets and slow pace (or post-boundary lengthening) along with silent pause duration to delimit them. The corpus used for the comparison is composed of 18 h...