The article considers authors' prefaces in linguistic popular science texts. Authors of texts about the language may have different professional status relation to subject speech (linguistics). Based on this criterion, three types authors been identified: 1) linguists who are active scientific work; 2) linguists-popularizers; 3) whose activities related practice (translators, editors, writers, ...

This handsome collection (Chinese title being pu tong yu yan xue ren wu zhi) consists of eighteen articles devoted to eighteen linguists. It can be roughly divided into four sections, i.e. (1)Western European linguists (1-90), (2) American linguists (91-112), (3) Slavic linguists (113-172), and (4) Chinese linguists (173-213). The section onWesternEuropean linguists introduces Ferdinandde Sauss...

This scoping review investigates the applications and implications of conversation analysis approach in Arab world. Specifically, it examines implementation by linguists both foreign language classrooms social interaction settings. The identifies gaps relevant literature to guide future research. is underpinned five-stage framework developed Arksey O’Malley. findings reveal that, compared non-A...

ly, a table represents a relation, defined mathematically as a collection of “tuples” (triples, quadruples, etc.) of values for some attributes. For example, the triple (Dyirbal, dbl, 40) represents the name, ISO code and recorded population of a language. 13 Now that we have more than one table, it is useful to identify them by name.

For about a century and a half now one of the usual tasks of historical linguistics has been reconstructing the prehistory of linguistic communities. (That is, of course, the side of reconstruction that non-linguists are interested in.) A perennial question is what sort of model of linguistic diversification best fits the data. This paper will explore that question in the light of data supporti...

Earlier linguistic studies of political discourse revealed that, not many works exist on pragmatic analysis of impoliteness in this genre. Apart from Mullany (2002), who employs relational and face works to analyses impoliteness in political discourse, Taiwo (2007), Adetunji (2009), and Ademilokun (2015), who employ discourse analytical tools in analyzing the political speeches, there exist ver...

Literary texts include linguistic form, as well as specialized literary forms (some of which also involve language). Linguistics can offer to literary studies an understanding of these kinds of form, and the ways by which a text is used to communicate meaning. In order to cope with the great variety of creative uses of language in literature, linguistics must acknowledge that some texts are ass...