This Commentary has two main aims. The first is to argue that systematic approaches to
“humour” have been hampered and skewed by terminological Anglocentrism, ie by reliance …

This article explicates the cultural conceptualizations of the word for salt (namak) in Persian.
The concept of namak reveals an important aspect of Persian sociality, hospitality, mutual …

This article compares the sentence-initial constructions it is ironic that in English with the
Persian bāmaze ast ke [lit. with. taste is that] to argue that such framing clauses seem to be …

As human beings, we live profoundly meaning-centred lives. But the words and meanings
we live by, and the discourse rituals of our daily interactions, most often escape our …

This chapter looks at maze-related [lit. taste] concepts in Persian as metapragmatic labels in
use (Haugh, Corpus-based metapragmatics. In: Jucker AH, Schneider KP, Bublitz W (eds) …

Disasters occasion ways of speaking and writing in the societies in which they take place.
Now, due to climate change, events such as wildfires, floods and heatwaves are becoming …

In this study, we analyse conversations recorded during ethnographic research in two
bilingual communities on the island of Rhodes, Greece. We examine:(a) the bilingual in …