Teaching and Researching Listening provides a focused, state-of-the-art treatment of the
linguistic, psycholinguistic and pragmatic processes that are involved in oral language use …

Intercultural Communication provides a critical introduction to the dynamic arena of
communication across different cultural and social strata. Throughout this book, topics are …

Motivated by the death of his partner, Adams seeks to redefine the closet as a relational
construct between all people and all sexualities. The closet is explored at each stage …

A MICHIGAN TEACHER TRAINING title Teachers are often in the forefront of today's cross-
cultural contact, whether in the language classroom or in the K–12 or university/college …

Intimacy is a fundamental aspect of how we relate to others in social settings. Language
encodes the social information of intimacy through both topics and other more subtle cues …

Twitter, a social media application and a popular microblogging platform, has become a
compelling subject in linguistics. The nature of the communication on Twitter is informal …

In this paper, I shall analyze US Presidential Barack Obama's South Carolina victory speech
from the perspective of pragmemes. In particular, I shall explore the idea that this speech is …

During a pilot study that used interviews to collect data from young male apprentices about
construction site safety, we were confronted with limited verbal responses. This article is …

Uncivil comments are prevalent in Chinese cyberspace. Many studies have explored the
impacts of online incivility and argument quality on public expression, but very few studies …

In this study the authors have looked at the use of interactive whiteboards (IWBs) in Mexico
from a linguistic anthropological perspective. Twenty lessons were video recorded to …