This study examined how native speakers of Australian English and French, nontone
languages with different lexical stress properties, perceived Mandarin tones in a sentence …

The Language of Journalism (2nd edition) provides lively and accessible tools to
understand and analyse the language of journalism. The authors explain how language …

In this pioneering exploration of African American slang-a highly informal vocabulary and a
significant aspect of African American English-Maciej Widawski explores patterns of form …

This study examines online reviews about booking a hotel room to see what factors affect
reviewers' rating and make online reviews persuasive to the reader. Linguists study online …

This corpus-driven study explores the linguistics phenomenon of mental verbs in English
song lyrics from 1960s until 2000s. This study aims to identify the frequency distributions of …

Launched in 1950, Penguin's Russian Classics quickly progressed to include translations of
many great works of Russian literature and the series came to be regarded by readers, both …

Während im wissenschaftlichen Diskurs einerseits Mehrsprachigkeit als Ressource betont,
andererseits aber auch das Fortbestehen von Sprachideologien und monolingualem …

Museums of Language and the Display of Intangible Cultural Heritage presents essays by
practitioners based in language museums around the world. Describing their history …

This paper discusses the relations between Arabs and Sogdians as reflected in some letters
found in Mount Mugh in modernTajikistan in 1933. It argues that their relations were more …

Geordie Stylizations is a short-focused research work which builds on the renovated interest
on the nexus between accent-identity-prestige-prejudice, offering an analysis of celebrities' …