This text traces the history of English language spread from the 18th to the beginning of the
21st century, combining that with a study of its langauge change. It links linguistic and …

Cultural–nationalist and democratic theory both seek to legitimize political power via
collective self-rule: Their principle of legitimacy refers right back to the very persons over …

What motivates a fluent bilingual speaker to switch languages within a single utterance? We
propose a novel discourse-functional motivation: less predictable, high information-content …

Neste trabalho é discutida a possibilidade de o conhecimento ortográfico dos sujeitos
interferir sobre determinadas propriedades do seu conhecimento fonológico. O principal …

This book investigates the interplay of language, emotion and gender in a multilingual
context and provides rich insights into the complexities of bilingualism and the field of …

I shall in this paper discuss the future of the planet in terms of ecosystem health. We people
are but one small part of the planet's ecosystem, but we have done more than any other part …

At some point between the prospective call by James Holmes in 1972 advocating translation
studies as a legitimate field of research and the founding in 1987 of the first national …

Lowland Scots is the spoken descendant of what was at one time an independent West
Germanic language with its own phonology, syntax, and lexis, developed from a northern …

It is common knowledge amongst professional linguists that linguistic theory and
observation of data go hand in hand and that neither can exist independently (see Lass …

This article challenges the received view that geolinguistic variation in France is both
imminent and inevitable. It is certainly true that France's ancestral dialects and regional …